That sounds like a 70-pound cricket, hopped up on steroids, with cybernetic enhancements that electronically distort its voice.

That is NOT one of God’s creatures.

Why must you harbor such strange fauna, Roanoke?

I gotta get audio of this.

[Update: Internet user Jen M. helpfully provided me with the below image to assuage my apprehension.  (Thanks, Jen.)  Some trivia — Jen tells me that’s actually a still from “The Beginning of the End,” the film that MST3K expertly lampoons with Crow’s Peter Graves impression.]