Orb-weaver Spider with Prey

When I spotted this Orb-weaver Spider, there was a grasshopper on its web, struggling to try and free itself. Of course, as we all know, the more the prey struggles on a spider web, the more entangled it becomes. The spider was up at the top of the web and I thought that it might be waiting for the prey to become exhausted, before approaching it, but before I could take my first photo, it rushed down to the grasshopper and started running around it, feeding out a silk strand as it went. Very soon, the spider had the grasshopper completely immobilized. I have seen (and shot some movie footage of) Argiope spiders wrapping their prey and they use a very sophisticated type of silk "ribbon" which completely enshrouds the victim which ends up looking like an Egyptian mummy, but this spider bound its prey with silken thread which seemed to be thicker than the threads which made up its web. The end result looked haphazard, but it worked. The grasshopper could no longer put up a struggle. Now, regarding the spider's identity, I originally called it Neoscona sp. because I couldn't see enough detail to be sure, but I revisited the site where I spotted it (this morning, Dec 8, 2022) and took some more photos. I am now confident enough to call this spider Neoscona molemensis Tikader & Bal, 1981. Some excellent pictures in https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/143470601 convinced me of this identification and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoscona confirms its presence in Philippines. I originally referred to the prey just as a grasshopper, but on revisiting the site I saw a great many grasshoppers in the immediate area surrounding the spider's web but the ones of appropriate size were all Pseudoxya diminuta. So I took some photos and compared them with the prey in this spotting. The prey in the pictures above is so messed-up by the spider's attack that it is impossible to be 100% sure, but my P. diminuta photos taken this morning seem to match what details can be seen. So I have decided that the weight of evidence is enough to tip the scale in favour of calling the prey Pseudoxya diminuta Walker, 1871.