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A small millipede (species unknown) crawling around outside a house in Tamil Nadu. It would lift and droop and move its two short antennae as it ambled along.

#millipedes #arthropods #nature

Side-on photo of a small (60mm long) millipede crawling along a small crack at the base of a grey wall. Shiny black body with round yellow spots (seemingly on every other segment of the body) just above the legs along both sides of the body.

A new video just crawled into our channel!

Jason Dunlop, curator of the 🕷️ arachnid & 🐛 myriapod collections at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin talks about...

🔸 Challenges in digitizing old collections.
🔸 Consistent naming of geographic locations.
🔸 And much more...

Watch the video here:

https://youtu.be/gufqUlB1Fu4

#spiders #millipedes #centipedes #webinar #WiNoDa #arachnids #insects #museumcollections

bristle millipede, why not

#bugstodon #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenida #Polyxenidae

A bristle millipede on a piece of wood. Its short body and bristle-lined segments make it look more like a caterpillar than a millipede. It is looking towards the camera with cute little eyes above a thick mustache of bristles.

Side view of millipede on fragment of wood, showing the tamarack-like sprays of bristles along its sides and the straight row of bristles at the front of its head. It has a tuft of straight shiny white hair on its butt, but it's out of focus.

Visible here is a #Julida #diplopode, a taxon with ca 750 species worldwide. #Diplopods are important decomposers of #deadwood or #leaflitter; their high food requirements and corresponding excrements make them important #humusproducers. Despite the name #millipedes, almost all diplopods have no more than 750 #legs. An exception is #Eumillipes #persephone (Siphonotidae) described by P. E.Mark et al.(2021),with 1,306 legs.
©#StefanFWirth 2025

Ref
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02447-0

#Photos
©S. F.Wirth

An undetermined larger member of Julida from nearby Sorrento (Italy), © Stefan F. Wirth, 2020-2025

Bristle millipedes (Polyxenidae) tootling around feeding on crustose lichen. For scale, those are honey locust (_Gleditsia triacanthos_) leaves.

#LichenSubscribe #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenidae

#Millipedes (originating from the Latin mille, "thousand", and pes, "foot")[1][2] are a group of arthropods that are characterised by having two pairs of jointed legs on most body segments; they are known

#NewSpecies!
New millipede from #china just tiptoed in:

Epanerchodus shibadongensis

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F201262A-327F-53D8-9963-015BF971F6CF
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.161070
#ZoosystematicsAndEvolution #EpanerchodusShibadongensis

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #diplopoda #millipedes

Live specimens of Epanerchodus shibadongensis.

The rain has been a boon for the bristle millipedes (Polyxenidae) on the stone slabs of the walkway walls.

(Bonus oribatid mite.)

#bugstodon #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenida #Polyxenidae

About a dozen bristle millipedes clustered under a tiny ledge of rock on the side of a stone slab. They are short, plump creatures with each of their body segments ornamented with rows of short bristles, and bundles of straight, shiny white hairs at the end of their abdomens. They look more like carpet beetle larvae or caterpillars than millipedes.

A cluster of seven bristle millipedes (young, by their low number of segments) and a shiny poppyseed-like oribatid mite in a similar depression on an algae/lichen-greened rock slab.

#NewSpecies!
New millipede from #colombia just tiptoed in:

Chonodesmus simplex

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/13600019-FFF4-FFAD-FF3D-FA3CFF61FE5B
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5659.2.5
#Zootaxa #ChonodesmusSimplex

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#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #diplopoda #millipedes

it's cool and cloudy enough that a few bristle millipedes are out during the day

#bugstodon #myriapods #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenida

A tiny, caterpillar-like millipede with bristle-trimmed segments and a short tuft of shiny white hair on its butt, on a stone surface. Its dark eyes are visible.

Fossilized nervous system points to ocean origins for #spiders & relatives https://phys.org/news/2025-07-fossilized-nervous-ocean-spiders.html

#Cambrian origin of the arachnid brain https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00822-X

"The first creatures to come onto land were probably millipede-like and insect-like creatures... a Mollisonia-like arachnid also became adapted to terrestrial life, making early #insects and #millipedes their daily diet... the 1st #arachnids on land may have contributed to the #evolution of a critical defense mechanism: insect wings"

illustration of a large lobster-like animal eating a smaller shrimp-like animal

Video of tiny tiny baby bristle millipede!

More about these charming creatures: https://earthlingnature.wordpress.com/2022/08/12/friday-fellow-bristly-millipede/
Carpet beetle larvae, which they might be confused with: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/120113-Anthrenus-verbasci/browse_photos?term_id=1&term_value_id=6

#bugstodon #myriapods #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenida #Polyxenidae

Indulged in a late night photoshoot with the bristle millipedes (Polyxenida, probably genus _Polyxenus_) that come out to browse on the stone walls around the garden. Saw the absolute tiniest bristlepede ever!

For far better close-up pictures, see e.g. BugGuide: https://bugguide.net/node/view/19106/bgimage

#bugstodon #myriapods #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenida #Polyxenidae

Four bristle millipedes—three large-ish, one tiny—on the uneven surface of a stone brick. They are light brown and segmented, with a straight tuft of shiny white hair at the end of their butt.

Side view of a bristle millipede on the edge of a flat stone. The legs are largely hidden by the pompom-like bristles along the sides.

Top front view of a bristle millipede, with high contrast to show the details of the rows of bristles and the dark eye-spots on its blunt head.

An extremely tiny bristle millipede that only has five segments or so. The bristles on its head are not as long, letting you see the eyes more clearly. It is baby.

A millipede with long legs, Opisthodolichopus scandens, spotted at the Sime Track in the Central Catchment Nature Reserve, Singapore on 8 Feb 2025. An endemic species (only recorded in Singapore), this one has a few mites attached near its head.

On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/260984591 ].

#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Arthropods #Millipedes #Diplopoda

A millipede with two long pairs of leg at each segment. It has a red body with a dark line running down the back, and yellow legs, Three small red mites are attached to the millipede near the head.

Scary finding today in my garden:
The body of a dead slow worm (Anguis veronensis) was still "beating", but I found out it was infested by small millipedes (Blaniulus guttulatus) and maggots 😅

Well, this is the circle of life, recycle and get recycled ♻️
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/291182942

#millipedes #Diplopoda #Anguidae #Reptilia #iNaturalist

Photo of a dead slow worm infested by small millipedes.

#NewSpecies!
New millipede from #laos just tiptoed in:

Tylopus namnonensis

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D87287BA-7221-FFC0-80B3-139A047C2F9D
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a5
#Zoosystema #TylopusNamnonensis

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #diplopoda #millipedes

Red-fronted lemurs a species native to Madagascar are known to use millipedes for self medication by rubbing their secretions onto their bodies as well as eating the millipedes themselves.

#funFact #WildLife #Nature #Lemur #Madagascar #Millipedes

#NewSpecies!
New millipede from #india just tiptoed in:

Chondromorpha lakroda

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DD87E8-FF80-5B1E-FF77-FA816634F5D7
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5604.3.6
#Zootaxa #ChondromorphaLakroda

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #diplopoda #millipedes

Yesterday it was an infestation of Portuguese millipedes in Wellington. Today it's a major Argentine ant infestation in Nelson.

What is it with these hot-blooded, Spanish-speaking insects invading the centre of our country?

Millipedes:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/559018/portuguese-millipedes-infestation-growing-in-wellington-entomologist-says

Ants:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360662974/ant-infestations-rife-nelson-tasman

#NZ #Ants #Millipedes

There is a PLAGUE of MILLIPEDES in Wellington.

"We've had them in the lounge, in the bed, we've had them crawling on the dog, hanging from the walls and the ceiling.
I've had one on me in the bed, I've woken up and it's been on my face. Anywhere you can think, I've seen them."

The well-read among you may note a parallel to the Biblical Plague of Frogs: "even into your bedroom and onto your bed!" (Exodus 8:3).

They may also find themselves noting a second parallel - a parallel parallel, if I may so term it - in the far-from-abolitionist attitudes of the NZ and Pharaonic governments in the matter of slavery.

To be fair, Pharaoh et al were very much further from abolitionist - but then, Wellington only has a very small plague. So far.
#BiblicalPlagues #millipedes #nzpol #ModernSlavery

#millipedes

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