I found this bug on a shelf above my beer fridge. Very... Different. I have no idea what the hell it could be. Albino? Some kind of micro ET?

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Eat it and describe how you feel and how it tasted. Keep posting hourly updates for 48 hours. If you don't report back, we shall assume that you've been converted.

I would eat 'em if I had the option of catching the little guy and tossing him over a open fire, but sadly these were taken months ago.:psyduck:

Seriously wtf is that?

Was it slow? It looks like it would be some type of sluggish creeper.

It wasn't too worried that I was hovering over it taking pictures with my phone. When I got really close it would run a few inches and stop. It had a dusty coating covering it, similar to flour.

The first pic looks kinda like a small mantid but everythings so blurry and the other pics don't match up so well. Preying mantises often have all sorts of ornamentation to aid their camouflage so it wouldn't be too unlikely.

Alternatively, some insects (lacewing larvae in particular) cover themselves in the dead husks of their prey to aid their camouflage.

Like most bugs, that is incredibly awesome. I would probably be a biologist or a geologist if nature was accessible

**** Jeff Goldblum man!!!!!!

Also,I think Sol found the first crab-Person.

I've seen those before, not quite that white. I dunno what they are called, but we have them around here (north Texas).

Someone needs to invent a silent hoverchair?

those are its eggs.

On the bright side, nature allows me to look down and study you!

You could probably take up birdwatching if the nature reserves in your area are designed well. The RSPB does quite a lot of work on its reserves here to improve disabled access including ramps and wheelchair accessible walkways across marshland; and hides designed with windows that extend lower and with benches designed to fold back to allow a wheelchair user in. I've seen quite a few disabled birders.

Outside of reserves and hides, car-based birding can be quite successful as you're basically in a moving hide. Things like entomology can be studied just as well through trapping methods as field sampling; most serious lepidoptera specialists use light traps and just let the moths (and beetles, solitary wasps, lacewings and occasionally opportunistic bats) come to them!

After spending an excessive amount of time researching, it might be a masked hunter but it looks a little big.

Edit: I stumbled a story about field mice where the photographers/researchers observed the mice in a habitat which accustomed the animals to the people filming them, and then let them out in a meadow near their research shack, allowing them to film and document them in a very convenient way. I'm sure I could do a bunch of things to enjoy nature but I haven't really gone in that direction with my education or anything. I still really want to do some wildlife work at some point, but chances are I'd just be editing.

Maybe he had his lasered off. Better check the forum archives for a thread about it.