Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Scared: WTH is this bug!!, 1 by yovillageidiot

yovillageidiot wrote:
I live in Clearwater FL, recently we have been seeing these bugs, but they usually are small like the size of a quarter or a tad bit bigger, but this bad boy is huge, a good 4+inches wide. Really it's creepy, sorta like a beetle fly thing. Other helpful information may be we were recently swarmed with these tiny green worms/caterpillars, like really small, maybe a little bigger than a grain of rice. Now these are here. I wont let my kids play outside because I don't know if these sting, bite, and/or poisonous. Not sure if the small worms and this are related but people in my neighborhood say those green worms come every spring, I've been here 5 years and never saw them before. I am also a Florida native, and in my 38 years I have never seen these bugs before. Hope someone can help me! I have more pictures of it but it would only let me upload one.