Albino Cricket

I'm sure there's some sort of Rare Bug Society that I should call with this news, but I don't really run in those circles. So I don't really know if that actually exists or how to go about finding them.

So I'll just put the news here.

While I mowed my yard yesterday, I had a sighting of (what I can only assume is) the extremely rare Albino Cricket. I was mowing near the corner of my house when something jumped out of the grass at my face.

I quickly (in my head) ran through the list of woodland yard creatures that I know to exist in my yard, hoping that I hadn't just killed another one of them:

Rabbit? No.
Cat? Sadly . . . no.
Bird? Nope.
Legs the Frog? Thankfully, no.
Cricket-shaped? YES.

It was shaped like a cricket, and jumped like a cricket. And here in Texas, crickets are not so much "rare" as they are "abundant", "everywhere", and "annoying." So, I came to the conclusion that it was definitely a cricket.

But it was white.

Seriously, y'all. A WHITE cricket. Who has ever seen such a thing?

I have. Here in my yard.

I didn't get a photo, since I was mowing and didn't have my phone handy. And I might have mowed the cricket, but I can't really be sure. Crickets are hoppy and whatnot.

So I don't actually have any proof that I saw it. You'll have to take my word for it.

Anyway, just thought the world would want to know that I found an Albino Cricket. And in the off chance that they had not been discovered before I saw one yesterday, please be sure to give me credit for discovering this rare species of cricket.

Again. Hope I didn't mow it.

C.T.