Any ideas of what type of bug that crawls out of a cocoon that looks like a bug?

Question

My sister has a maple tree just in her backyard. She found these weird bugs on it...or actually just their shells. They were about an inch long, brown, looked like these huge bugs, but when you touched them...they turned out to be just a shell...like something crawled out of them. Anyone ever seen a bug like this or have an idea....She has several trees in her yard, but they seemed to hang out just on the bark of the maple

Answer 1

It's a bug that molted it's skin, probably a cicada

Answer 2

maybe a butterfly.

Answer 3

It's the shell of a growing cicadas which make a loud noise they're the worlds loudest insect.

Answer 4

Here is what a cicada looks like.

http://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&k...

here is one emerging from its shell.

http://bugguide.net/node/view/24081

Answer 5

coon-bug

Answer 6

yes, im guessing cicaeda too

it's an exoskeleton, not a cocoon

Answer 7

A cicada