WHAT do you do when you walk into the backyard and discover a giant spider eating an even bigger snake?

If you're Ant Hadleigh, you go straight for your camera.

The Cairns resident caught a series of incredible snaps after walking into his mate's backyard to see the golden orb spider slowly devouring a brown tree snake yesterday.



"I thought it was pretty incredible," Mr Hadleigh told The Cairns Post.



"A few times the snake managed to get up and attack the spider, and the spider would run back up the web.



"I would have put my money on the snake for sure, especially seeing how big it was."



Read more about the snake-eating spider and see more pictures at cairns.com.au