Garden Pests and Diseases: help ID unknown beetle pls, 1 by cj5404az

cj5404az wrote:
I am hoping some entomology-savy person here might know a little about this bug. It's about 1.5 inches long and I keep seeing it around my yard. I found tons of what I believe to be egg sacks on a shrub in my back yard this past Fall when I cut the shrub way down (it was covered in them and I was going to hack the shrub down anyway) out flew this large bug, so I am assuming this is the one that laid the eggs. I keep seeing it around and don't know if I should be worried or not . Hopefully it is harmless and I won't have gobs of little ones that eat all my plants. I've looked on a few websites showing beetles and haven't been able to id it. Thanks for any help!!
Carolyn