Can you identify the huge insect I saw? (Ontario, Canada)

Question

This bug was massive it was like the size of half a sausage.

It was black. Somewhat the same colours of a fly, The wings were on it's back, the wings were clear with black veins. It was horrifying!!

The bug was long and fat!!! I've never seen a bug that looked like that in Ontario, NEVER!

It was huge and scared the h**l out of me.

What was it?? I'd really like to know. It must have been something unusual because I've never seen anything like it and neither had my cousin!

I'm pretty sure it was NOT a beetle, nor a water beetle.

Answer 1

hmm dont know, never seen that before. maybe look it up on google.  

Answer 2

It sounds like a june bug.  My sister lives in Ontario and she has them.  They are really big, when I was visiting her she had some that were about 2 inches big, and they fly.  Yuck!!

Answer 3

creepy like silence of the lambs, 'this way clarice'...slipslipslip...ahahaha... but yeah did you maybe get a picture of it?  is that it?  the one from the link before here?

here's some more, and these are in michigan, so they might be a bit closer to canada.

About Cicadas:

Cicadas are insects belonging to the family Cicadidae in the order Hemiptera*. Cicadas are recognizable by their large size (>1 inch) and clear wings held rooflike over the abdomen. Most cicadas are strong fliers that spend their time high in the trees, so they are rarely seen or captured. Their life cycles are long, usually involving multiple years spent underground as juveniles, followed by a brief (roughly 2-6 weeks) adult life above ground. As juveniles and adults, they feed on the xylem fluid of woody plants using piercing and sucking mouthparts. As adults, males produce a loud species-specific mate-attracting song using specialized sound-producing organs called tymbals. These sounds are among the loudest produced by any insects. In some species, the male calling song attracts both males and females to mating aggregations, while in other species males remain dispersed. Female cicadas do not have tymbals, but in some species the females produce clicking or snapping sounds with their wings. After mating, females lay eggs in bark or twigs; the eggs hatch later in the season and the new nymphs burrow underground and begin feeding on roots.

Answer 4

Was it a cicada? aka, 17 year locust.

http://www.cicado.com/cicada-top.JPG

They're harmless and they are not flies.  They make that loud, almost electrical buzzing sound you hear this time of the year.