Found this in my basement!

[FeelingTheBlues]

Greetings TRF,

I was in my basement earlier tonight enjoying a good lurk on the forum when a little movement on my left caught my attention. I took a little look and to my surprise one of those things was on the floor...

This is not the actual one.



As soon as I saw it I stopped moving, I didn't want to scare it and lose it in my basement but while I was thinking about a plan it started to move under my printer's table. I quickle went upstairs to get a little Glad plastic bowl with a cover and went back in the room to get it. Long story short, I had to kick the table a little bit to make it move behind my computer desk and move the said desk along with some wires very slowly to capture it! Here's the actual one (a rather big guy might I add).





Now I'm not a fanatic animal lover but I hate to make them suffer and kill them, therefore I had to come up with an idea to bring it outside. Now I couldn't simply lift the bowl and put the cover because I was afraid it would run and jump away to I had to find a temporary cover in the meantime...

This did the job perfectly!





Is it safe?



I then lifted the bowl and the piece of paper, placed the cover on the other side and went in the backyard to let it go (please excuse the mess on the table, we had wind and the trees in the yard lost a couple of small branches).



Funny thing is, when I took the bowl off the grasshopper stayed there and didn't move. Needless to say I took advantage of the situation...



Please accept my apologies for the dust in a couple of pictures. As stated, I got it from behind my desk so obviously it isn't the cleanest place around...





I think it was amazed by my watch...









And here is a video I had the time to shoot, that's how we got separated!



It was quite a funny and nice experience! I'm not really hoping to find a lot of those in my house but it sure is amusing to capture them and release them in the wild!

Thank you for watching, feel free to comment!