Eat my shorts

This very cool looking creature was laying eggs on my shorts at La Pêche beach a couple of summers ago. I have no idea what it was - some kind of grasshopper I suppose! - but it had an amazing coppery metallic exoskeleton.

Details: Nikon D70, 105mm macro, f/16, 1/40s, ISO 200, tripod. 4 July 2005, Gatineau Park, Quebec. Placemark.