I found this in my pool skimmer basket...

This made me jump when I looked in the skimmer on Saturday afternoon. I mean bugs don't creep me out and at the end of any given day I've likely got 10 centipedes and 10 spiders on the bottom of my pool (to vacuum out).

But this is the biggest freakin' bug I've seen in Canada (outside a museum). It looks like it's got wings so it may be in the locust family... but I'm at a loss. I can't find any answers on the 'net and am about to email some pix to an entimological website.

Anyone ever seen anything like this in North America?