I was waiting for the bus the other day, and I saw this creepy giant bug perched on the bus shelter frame. It kind of looked like a big wingless bee, so of course I was intrigued.... except it didn't seem to be doing anything. Further investigation revealed that it was just a shell. Was it some kind of larvae? Eater from the inside out by a spider? Who can say! It was firmly grabbing on to the post, even in death, in impressive defiance of gravity. I poked it but it stayed stuck there. It is gone now - I wonder what happened to it?
ETA: It is a cicada shell (thanks
aghrivaine!)

A bit of a perspective shot. the thing was probably about three or four inches long (6-8 cm?)

Here you can see where it is split open along the back, and hollowed out inside

One from the other side - check the spiderwebs

And one looking down from above, for extreme creepy!
ETA: It is a cicada shell (thanks
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A bit of a perspective shot. the thing was probably about three or four inches long (6-8 cm?)

Here you can see where it is split open along the back, and hollowed out inside

One from the other side - check the spiderwebs

And one looking down from above, for extreme creepy!
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But hey, I've never seen anything liek it *alive*.... :o
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And many's the grade school science project that involved the morphology of the cicada pupa, I can tell you!
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Makes me think of wolf spiders, which I think live in your area. I remember seeing a post on a message board from a guy in arizona. He took a picture of one on his bedroom wall, crawling out from under his dinner-plate sized, circular wall clock. Taking into account the span, it was a big as the friggin' clock.
It was a pretty creepy photo.
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