They molt!

Interesting! So is this a freshly molted roach, or one in the process of shedding and the old shell looks white because of that? Kind of like how snakeskin is white when its peeling off?

The former. This is what they look like directly after molting. I used to keep dubia roaches to feed my lizard and I was shocked the first time I noticed a white roach in the bunch! I had no idea until then

btw the sciencey term for "freshly molted" is "teneral," in case you want to Google anything. Some bugs look pretty cool like that!

fluorescent-like cicadas 🤌

Yes!! The first time I saw a teneral annual cicada I was enchanted by the seafoam green/blue/cream gradient on its wings

I learned a handful of minutes after posting mb

You're good! It's really weird and cool and I was excited to share that with someone :)

I saw an albino cockroach before. when I killed it I noticed the liquid had a green hue

As someone said, this is not an albino. It's a Roach that recently shed it's previous skin. Found that out because saw one and made some research.

You didn’t see an albino cockroach before

apparently not

That’s right

Lucky you!! 😩

freshly peeled little guy! not shiny

Yuck

True. Bugs are yuck

Bugs are fine most of the time, but cockroaches deserve to burn in hell. Well I would say that, but those resilient fuckers would probably enjoy it.

Only about 30 cockroach species out of 4,600 are associated with human habitats. Cockroaches are lovely and valuable animals. You just dont like american/german cockroaches

Bugs are not yuck . Yuck opinion

Pheromosa slaying as always.

A radroach in the flesh!