Sounds like a Southern lubber grasshopper, aka Romalea guttata......

.....They are mean and spit at you and eat your yard from top to bottom. They are the kind of beings that you dream about and in the dream you are an inch tall and they are big as Godzilla and running after you and spitting out globs of tobacco, (where did that rumor come from anyway – though I can see this guy sitting on a naked plant after eating the whole thing and having a smoke.)
Most people around here don’t like them because they are pests and love to snack on ornamental bushes, but I love the crisp colors.  They're in the locust family.

Someone told me to put it on my fishing hook and a big bass will be waiting for me.

As a kid, we'd pick the fuckers up & throw them as hard as we could on the sidewalk, & splatter there yellow guts all over the walk. Life was simple then.

Is this them, see pic of them fucking, how appropriate on TER, grassfuckinghoppers!

They come out about this time of year. Have fun splattering their guts on your sidewalk or driveway.....