What is this insect? Is it dangerous?

Thanks Cruz for those pix, they'll help a lot, aroused my own curiosity

Genus Tachyerges, probably Tachyerges Salicis..

It's hard to tell for sure but it definitely is either a beetle or a weevil. The two are related; both are in the same order, but the weevil has a long protrusion in front of the head at the tip of which are the mouth parts.
You definitely have nothing to fear from this insect.

Tim, Col, thanks just loads

It looks a lot like it but the insect in the OP pic has wings.

It looks like a weevil to me. And no, it's not dangerous.

Hey, sure man! and thank you for expressing your curiosity.

Oh yeah... Thanks Tim!

Thanks dude! I'm glad that it wasn't a cause for alarm. I recently got paranoid thanks to bot fly vids hahaha.

Hmmm... stupid question, so weevil's don't have wings? Also I noticed that weevils have a third segment in the body... Thanks for that observation btw Blickers!

Apparently, some weevils have operational wings and can fly, such as the rice weevil. Others can't. The weevil depicted in timur's pic had no wings, while the bug in your picture definitely did.

So the thing might be a weevil, but not the weevil timur pictured.

The weevil in timur's picture had wings. What you see are the elytra or forewings. The hindwings, the flyings wings, are folded up and tucked under the elytra.

Oh, I see. Thanks a lot for the help col!

I see those a lot in my part of the Midwest and no they're not dangerous.

This is a rare insect indeed. It's technical name is Shapeshiftus Lethalis. It's rarely seen because you're never really seeing it for what it really is. You're lucky because it made the mistake of taking on the shape of an elephant, as seen in the third picture down in your OP. I say you are lucky because their bite is lethal, but now it has given itself away because there are no elephants that small. Should have killed it right then because next time you see it, it'll look like a ladybug, or weevil, or who knows?

Or, maybe you're not so lucky. Their venom has a delayed reaction, usually taking effect one month after being bitten. You may have already been bitten . . . or maybe not. Just to be on the safe side though, you should probably get your affairs in order.

Kudos to Timur a true entomologist who identified the weevil down to genus and possibly species, a difficult task indeed.