OK – we have an expert: Dr. Rick Hoebeke, at the GA Museum of Natural History (via Dan Suiter), has taken a stab at this: “It looks like one of the camel or cave crickets, definitely a Gryllacrididae. “But all the spiny stuff from the exoskeleton, I believe, is the result of a Laboulbeniales infection, also called labouls. “This kind of fungus includes many species which are obligate insect ectoparasites, with cellular thalli. A thallus is attached to its host by a dark-colored foot cell, through which the fungus penetrates the exoskeleton of its host to draw nutrition from the hemolymph. “The external part of the thallus may form male structures (antheridia) or female structures (trichogynes and perithecia), or both (ex Wikipedia).”

Yep, Zombie cricket! Thank you Suzanne the buglady for confirming my suspicions and identifying the poor Cricket so afflicted. http://www.bugladyconsulting.com/

Makes me remember my ex husband, He was a monster too,

I second the Jerusalem cricket. But it doesn’t have the dark stripes in used to seeing? And I’ve never seen a hairy one.

This a Carolina leaf-rolling cricket (Camptonotus carolinensis) killed by a parasitic fungus. (per Piotr Naskrecki)

I think Bobby is right. See photos: www.pinterest.com/haloteam/cordyceps-fungus/

A Cordyceps fungi infected cricket?

Looks like an immature cricket. Phil

I believe that is a “Jerusalem Cricket”. I first saw them in Southern California. I have never seen ones with spines before though.

Looks like a lady mole cricket that forgot to shave her underarms to me!

Looks like some kind of spiny/hairy grasshopper, cricket or locust. Was it alive and naturally brown or is that just a husk?