![]() ![]() Millipedes, whose exoskeleton lacks a protective, waxy cuticle, like to stay undercover where the humidity is high-in leaf litter, rotting wood, and soil. They’ve been around for a long time-one of the first groups of animals to adapt to life on land 400 million years ago (in the days when oxygen levels were higher than they are now and therefore arthropods grew bigger-six-foot long millipedes). ![]() For more eye candy, click your way through the orders and families. millipede is about 6 ¼” (also California, where they seem to be serious about their millipedes). Some are bioluminescent, and there’s even a species in South America that has moss growing on it. to the world’s leggiest (California) –.Millipedes come in a surprising variety of sizes, shapes and colors-from millipedes that could be mistaken for pillbugs They speculate that there could be hundreds of undescribed species in North America. However many legs they have (and they have far more than any of the rest of us), those legs are short, and millipedes don’t disperse far or fast without help.Īccording to, there are 12,000 described species of diplopods worldwide, divided into two sub-classes, 16 orders, and 145 families, but there may be 70,000 more species out there waiting to be described! North America has just under 1,000 species in 52 families illustrates members of 10 orders, including a few non-native species that have made it to our shores. No actual 1000-leggers have been found, and the present record belongs to an individual with 750 legs. Millipedes (Latin for “thousand feet”) have two legs on each side of most segments (centipedes, also pictured here, have one on each side for centipede info, see BOTW’s House Centipede). When you say “diplopod,” you’re also speaking Greek ( diplos means double, and pous means foot). They’re in the class Diplopoda (for taxonomic comparisons, Insecta and Arachnida are also classes). ![]() ![]() Millipedes are under the umbrella of the great phylum Arthropoda along with centipedes and a few others, they’re in the subphylum Myriapoda (from myrias, the ancient Greek word for 10,000). See-all good! Yet, many millipede hits on-line are exterminators (you don’t need one, because your house is way too dry for millipede comfort and will kill them all by itself. If your home experiences a Biblical scourge of millipedes (which are humidity-seekers) it could be a First Alert that your plumbing needs a look. They don’t want to come inside for the winter. Most of them shun living plants and feed on rotting organic material (many practice coprophagy, though). They seem to be in need of a good PR campaign, so here are the basics. Millipedes, a.k.a rain worms, are fascinating critters-the BugLady wrote about them in the early days of BOTW (April, 2008)-see Millipedes 101). With Sandhill Cranes providing a sound track, the BugLady shared the road with a wolf spider, a six-spotted fishing spider and some small (but colorful) millipedes. #CENTIPEDE AND MILLIPEDE PICTURES AND FACTS DRIVERS#Automobile drivers are seldom happy with that road, but masses of millipedes, spiders, dragonflies, and butterflies enjoy its damp and dappled surface, and frogs, snakes, and other small animals cross from upland to lowland there. The BugLady took a walk on the first day of spring along a nearby dirt road. ![]()
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