I have photographs of the males, which are pale brown with a yellow abdomen, and very small, looking like a different species of spider. It is said that the males will wait for the female to shed its skin before mating, knowing the females jaws are then too soft, for her to eat him. I have not witnessed this but have photographed both female and male resting on the same web. Some spiders will offer a female food during mating to deter being eating. There large webs are created from ground level in a gap in long grass, and is, the vertical zigzag pattern of silk from the centre to the bottom of the web is always the easiest way to find them. The large females usually sit face down in middle of the web resting in the sun, only moving at speed to capture its prey caught in its web, quickly wrapping it with silk, to eat later, then returning to the centre of web. Their main diets is flies and especially grass hoppers, being in best position for such insects. It will tackle larger prey, I have seen one female eating a large Bush cricket and another a bumble bee. The female makes a nest shaped like a pot, just before autumn she will guard the nest for a few days to a week. But not long after she will die, the nest is left through the winter, which is probably why they do well in unmanaged fields. The siblings hatch in the spring. A lovely spider and well worth the trouble to find, observe or photograph.