Please help me identify this insect!!?

It is a potatoe bug, or also what is commonly known as a Jerusalem cricket. They may be able to give you a littel bite, but they have no venom and have no real formal defence. They are closely related to grasshoppers, and they are just as passive and gentle. They can sometimes dig themselves under the soil, they will fed on grass roots, other insects , dead plant materials, and of course potatoes. The name potatoe bug is very misleading and not very accepted in the insect community. This name suggests that it is a true bug, in the order Hemiptera, instead of Orthoptera where it belongs. But, the name Jerusalem would also suggest that is is only found there.......so its a lose lose.....

I hope this answers your question

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It looks like a really big termite to me. Not likely to be poisonous, but might bite. If you mess with it.

catch it in a jar and bring it to a pest control place, it looks like a termite to me, if it is a termite you better find out, you house might be their home too

definately looks like a huge termite. I'd call the exterminator if I were you cause where there is one like that there are many many more.

this is a potato bug AKA Jerusalem bug. they are not poisonous but will bite you (painfully) if you try to handle them.

it looks like a termite or giant red ant not too sure though...

Jerusalem cricket...not harmful. I handle these guys all the time but have not been bitten yet.

its a termite and yes it will bite if you mess with it enogh and indeed the bites are painfull

put it in a jar then put some lighter fluid in it and set it on fire LOL

It's a cigarette ant...squish it !!!