Does anyone know what kind of bug is this?

Question

We found a shell it looked like it shed first, then we found the bug on the side of the house. Do you know what it is? We live in North Western Pennsylvania. http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f34/hcrate/000_2926.jpg

Answer 1

-----yes itsa Cicada----------------------------------...

•The cicada is related to the harvest fly.

•Some cicada's live underground for seventeen years.

•The cicada grows up to three inches.

•Cicadas suck juice from tree roots when they are larva.

•Once the female cicada comes above ground, she mates. Then she lays her eggs and dies.

•The cicada can lay four hundred to six hundred eggs.

•The adult cicada lives in trees.

•Adult cicadas live for thirty to forty days.

•A cicada can chirp so loud you can hear it from half a mile away.

•A male cicada abdomen has two drum like sound chambers.

Answer 2

definately some species of cicada

Answer 3

Yes. It's a Cicada.

Here's a pic.:

http://www.falconweb.net/celestial/img/5...

Answer 4

Cicada.