Found this guy behind the shed, being about an inch long...and weird looking, I took a shot of em.

Tried to find out what it was during the jets/cowboy game 1/2x, but no luck, figured somebody like RAVEN will be able to provide the answer even faster than google...:ninja:

I think it is a cicada.

Vic

I think it is a cicada.

Vic

We have a winner! I remember the year they came out down at the canal. It was freaky walking through the woods when there were millions of them, everywhere, the roads were littered with them, trees covered with them, splattered windsheild caked with them...they were everywhere. I can't recall how many years they go before reemerging.

19 i think....

they are/make the official sound of summer

Cicada, or as I know them the "17 year locust".
They do spend 17 years as an underground "grub" and emerge in late spring as these monster looking bugs.
What I find interesting is that since they spend their larval stage underground, why would they need to look like some alien spawn?

Well, in any case, they are cool looking bugs by far.
(My next favorite is the "stag-horn" beetles that you usually encounter at night, you know those big brown beetles that seem to cling to whatever they touch!)