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Moss millipede, species unidentified, Polydesmida
Photographed in Ecuador by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook
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#animals#curators on tumblr#bugs#myriapods#millipede#polydesmid#polydesmida#flat backed millipede#moss millipede#mimicry#camouflage#one nice bug
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Been a while since I posted anything to my youtube so here are some of my many s. aberrans flat millipedes :)
#Sigmoria Aberrans#flat millipede#millipede#blacklight#polydesmid#diplopoda#invertebrate#arthropod#Youtube
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a handsome fellow and trespasser
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Bug of the Day
A very cool Polydesmid millipede (Polydesmus sp.) that I found on the side of my shed last week. Thanks to Derek Hennen over at bugguide.net for the id.
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so apparently someone collected what look like three Apheloria virginiensis millipedes for me, and everything i've searched so far doesn't really have a sure fire way to care for them (aside from them being a bit difficult to keep alive for long periods of time). i'll need to keep them for at least a few weeks before handing them over to my boss, has anyone here had any success with this species/have any tips for short-term care?
#bugblr#i can most likely keep them alive for long enough to send them out#but im new to millipedes and haven't had any experience with polydesmids
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@chaoticrystal submitted: just some guys
(+ tag that brought me joy)
Dang these sure are just some guys. I love them all but I would die for the millipede :’)
#animals#insects#bugs#submission#grasshopper#beetle#butterfly#myriapods#millipede#flat backed millipede#polydesmid#katydid#ten lined june beetle#bug art
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@fishermod submitted: A leggy friend, a fuzzy (and maybe dead?) friend, a slimy friend and a spindly boi. IDs on all would be nice, but it’s mainly the millipede I’m curious about. Also wondering why the beetle has chest fuzz; that’s a bit unusual for non-bee/moth insects, isn’t it? All seen around Surrey, BC, Canada.
Suuure the millipede is likely a yellow-spotted millipede, Harpaphe haydeniana. The beetle looks either dead or very near death. It’s common for all kinds of bugs to be fuzzy! Scarabs are some of the fuzziest beetles out there. Yours look like probably a European chafer. Obviously, given the name, it is not native.
The snail looks like it’s in the genus Cepaea, and it has a white lip on the shell, so it could be a white-lipped snail, although the brown-lipped snail is far more common in your area and despite the name, brown-lipped snails can have a white-lipped shell. So…make of that what you will.
And finally the spider is a male northern yellow sac spider!
#animals#insects#bugs#spider#arachnids#submission#myriapods#millipede#flat backed millipede#polydesmid#yellow spotted millipede#beetle#scarab beetle#european chafer#dead bugs#gastropods#mollusks#snail#Cepaea#yellow sac spider
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@laserbatbunny submitted: At my old job, one night, I was really high coming from work and walking to my car I saw this beautiful lad. I took like five pics and this is the best one. He's on my phone background.
It was a pretty spring night!!
Long flat pal!! 10/10, would immediately befriend
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@cherubug submitted: saw a bunch of these little guys at marys peak in oregon! it was raining so i think they were coming out from the ground? i remember as a kid people told me they were venemous but idk what they are
They’re flat-backed millipedes! They are not venomous. Some species do secrete a defensive fluid, but there’s so little of it that it’s not considered dangerous for people :)
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@muselover1901 submitted: Hello! I’m wondering who this little friend is. Found in [removed] (please remove location) in a potted houseplant just purchased from the nursery. I love their little leggies 🥰
Hi! They’re a greenhouse millipede and I love their lil leggies too :)))
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@183degreesbelowzero submitted: leggy friend on their side in my house (dead?)
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Certainly looks dead or near dead. Sometimes they can still be saved if they’re put somewhere very damp! They dry out very easily :(
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@caterpillarsalad submitted: i live in the southern east coast of the USA. i’ve been seeing these millipedes everywhere but apps like inaturalist cant give me a good answer.
I can’t either, really! These dudes can be hard to tell apart. I can tell you it’s a flat-backed millipede (polydesmid), and probably in the family Xystodesmidae. :)
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@firekitten830 submitted: Camping! Met some lovely friends already :) ids would be great if possible, location is west va
bonus toad I had to gently move elsewhere because I still cannot get over how tiny they were
Tiny toad!! They can be an honorary bug. The orbweaver and the wolf spider I’d really need to see clearly to ID. The millipede is a flat-backed millipede in Polydesmida, but I couldn’t say which species, and the wasp is an American pelecinid wasp :)
#spider#arachnids#submission#bugs#animals#insects#wolf spider#orbweaver#wasp#american pelecinid wasp#myriapods#millipede#flat backed millipede#polydesmid#toad
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@flawlesschowchow submitted: Hey, I found this millipede in the potting soil of one of my tropical plants and I was wondering if I could get an id on it. I live in [removed] (please remove location), but considering that this plant is not native to my region, this location might not help with IDing. It was found in the Rattlesnake plant (Goeppertia insignis) pot, if that information helps.
Also, any advice on what to do with it would be helpful. I don't want to release a potentially non-native species into my area, but I also don't want the poor thing to just live in there without any food. Any help is appreciated, thanks!
It's a flat-backed/polydesmid millipede. It looks to me like a greenhouse millipede, which is not native but was introduced a long time ago and is now common so releasing one individual isn't gonna hurt anything. On the off chance it's not a greenhouse millipede, rattlesnake plants are common enough house plants that I'd bet it was grown locally unless you ordered it from out of state, but to be safe, you can leave the pede in the plant if you don't want to kill it or feel weird about releasing it. It will have all it needs to eat in there as they feed on decomposing organic matter and there's plenty of stuff in the dirt + old leaves from the plant itself that it could happily eat for the rest of its life. It may come out when you water the plant, but otherwise you wouldn't see it much.
#animals#insects#bugs#submission#myriapods#millipede#flat backed millipede#polydesmida#greenhouse millipede
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As requested, some funky lads from the Amazon Rainforest! I couldn’t choose just one :)
All photos by Art Anker on Flickr // Facebook - Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!
1. Unidentified peacock moth
2. Boxer sharpshooter, Peltocheirus sp.
3. Stick grasshopper, Apioscelis sp.
4. Glowworm beetle male, Phengodidae
5. Unidentified terrestrial flatworm
6. Unicorn katydid, Copiphora sp.
7. Hockey mask harvestman, Simambea sp.
8. Unidentified polydesmid millipede
9. Harlequin beetle, Acrocinus longimanus
10. Slug moth caterpillar, Limacodidae
#animals#curators on tumblr#insects#arachnids#myriapods#worm#flatworm#moth#peacock moth#sharpshooter#boxer sharpshooter#stick grasshopper#grasshopper#glowworm beetle#beetle#katydid#unicorn katydid#harvestman#millipede#polydesmid#flat backed millipede#harlequin beetle#longhorn beetle#slug caterpillar moth#caterpillar#larva#long post#terrestrial flatworm#one nice bug
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