Native orbweaver ate marmorated bug: How to annotate?

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/315981026
A few days ago I went to the old house to get something, drop off boxes, or whatever. I saw two big Argiopae aurantiae in their big webs and took pictures of the one next to the door. Then I opened the door, disconnecting one side of the web. In the bottom of the web I saw a well-wrapped shield bug, which has to be Halyomorpha halys as that’s the only shield bug around here, while the spider was eating something else. The bug is edge-on in the photo and the markings around the edge of the abdomen are hidden by the wrapping, so I didn’t make an observation of the bug, but I know that’s what it was.

So now I know that Argiope aurantia eats Halyomorpha halys, and we don’t need the jorō to eat it, though if jorō like eating them they’d help. What observation field can I add so that people can search for what eats marmorated bugs, if I didn’t make an observation of the bug?

ETA: As of half a day ago, when I went back to get all the rest of my stuff out of the house, both spiders were still there, but I didn’t see the bug in the web or on the stoop below.

One option is the observation fields.

Check how I did it here with a Carrion Crow preying on a Sand Lizard

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/203600218

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It’s not the best option if you weren’t able to get a clear photo of the prey, but the Who Eats Whom project (that, full disclosure, I run) would be a great fit for this kind of observation in the future.

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/who-eats-whom

Obvservations from this project are ported over to a separate website where you can visualize global feeding interactions https://whoeatswhom.org

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Slightly related: I like to use the Observation field ‘Feeding on’ mainly to add the flowers for bees or butterflies, is nice to see all the insects that take the pollen of some flower. Here an example: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/316566679

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