This is common spider in grassy places, the Yellow Garden Spider, Argiope aurantia. This one has a wrapped up grasshopper in its web. (family Araneidae, the orb-weavers)
Jim Kalisch (photographer; copyright holder), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Entomology
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