What is this Bug?.............

Question

I found it stuck to my door dead.....

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/7227/bigbugvu1.jpg

Answer 1

that's discusting and it looks alot like a cicada...i HATE cicadas

Answer 2

now that i've seen the bug and i've read a dude's answer, it does really look like a cicada even though i've never seen it in it's nymph stage.

Answer 3

Use these sites to ID bugs -

http://bugguide.net/node/view/15740

http://greennature.com/article1899.html

http://www.einsteins-emporium.com/life/a...

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/

http://www.insectimages.org/

Answer 4

It looks something like a creature from Aliens. Are you feeling anything strange in your stomach? ;)

Actually, I think it's a cicada shell. Did you know they incubate in the ground for 17 years before they emerge? Then they only live for a short while. It's kind of sad. But, they are kind of ugly.

One time a produce truck turned over in Nashville, TN filled with bananas. Well, at the same time there was a plague of cicadas and they were everywhere. There were millions of them; smacking into the windshield and crawling on the freeway. Plus there were all these gazillion bananas everywhere. It was a real mess. It was kind of disorienting. "Is this the apocalypse?", I thought to myself. But no, it was only bananas and cicadas.

After that I went to Red Lobster and has some of those really tasty stuffed mushrooms and some scallops & such. They were delicious.

Answer 5

It is the nymph stage of a Cicada.  The nymph spends most of it's life underground before it emerges.

Scroll down about half way on the link provided, and there is a little movie showing the cicada emerge from the nymph.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada