Is this a mantis or grasshopper?

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Bctreeluver Nanoose bay, bc, Canada Oct 10, 2015

Picture taken in Nanoose Bay, BC, Canada. The little guy is a little more than an inch. Ground mantis is native to BC. You have to enlarge picture.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Oct 11, 2015

This is a robber fly (family Asilidae). These are ambush predators on other arthropods and thus may be considered beneficial.

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