A spider in my screen?

When I first bought my MBP last June, I noticed on my screen that I had a small dead pixel--not large enough to be a full dead pixel, but perhaps a dead or stuck sub-pixel. It was for all intents and purposes invisible, and unless you look for it, you can't see it. Most of the time I didn't even know it was there, it's literally the size of a speck of dust.
Recently I got a camera that could take very close macro photos, and decided to see this dead pixel up close. What a surprise when I found out there was no dead pixel at all. It looked like a tiny spider! Perhaps a mite of some sort, that had gotten embedded in the panel during manufacture. It's possible it's a piece of dust or debris that looks like a spider, but it's hard to dismiss the resemblance.
Here's a link to the photo.
Anyone experience anything remotely like this? Am I nuts?

Well, realistically speaking, what would they do about it? I doubt they would replace the screen. They have a certain measure for the number of dead pixels that are acceptable on a screen, and this isn't even a pixel (though, arguably, it is both 'dead' and 'stuck'...)
Truthfully speaking, the speck itself doesn't pose much of a problem...it's the thought of knowing I will always have a bug embedded in my screen. Even though it's just a speck to the naked eye, I will always know that it's a dead bug.
Aren't screens manufactured in super-sterile clean rooms? How did a bug even manage to get in there?

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