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  1. Nothing was stopping this little traveler. It found trouble on the road, took one look, and kept moving like it had somewhere important to be.🥹

    #nature #wildlife #SoilLifeSim #millipedes

  2. Nothing was stopping this little traveler. It found trouble on the road, took one look, and kept moving like it had somewhere important to be.🥹

    #nature #wildlife #SoilLifeSim #millipedes

  3. I didn't realize the millipede evolutionary tree was this incomplete until recently (holes are assumed; the fossil record has its issues).
    Also, they were apparently the first animals adapted to life on land.

    Link: cell.com/current-biology/fullt

    #Millipedes #Evolution

  4. I didn't realize the millipede evolutionary tree was this incomplete until recently (holes are assumed; the fossil record has its issues).
    Also, they were apparently the first animals adapted to life on land.

    Link: cell.com/current-biology/fullt

    #Millipedes #Evolution

  5. Long before #vertebrates walked on land, #millipedes had the place to themselves.

    Hundreds of millions of years before #dinosaurs arrived, these early decomposers were helping establish Earth's terrestrial ecosystems.

    But despite their ancient history, scientists still hadn't fully unraveled their evolutionary story.

    Now, an international tesm of scientists has solved one of the last major mysteries in millipede #evolution, revealing new clues about a group of #animals that helped pave the way for #life on land.

    Millipedes beat vertebrates onto land by more than 80 million years.

    They set the stage for later life on land, including humans and vertebrates.

    #biology
    phys.org/news/2026-06-evolutio

    Paper by Vasquez-Valverde et al. (2026):
    cell.com/current-biology/abstr

  6. Long before #vertebrates walked on land, #millipedes had the place to themselves.

    Hundreds of millions of years before #dinosaurs arrived, these early decomposers were helping establish Earth's terrestrial ecosystems.

    But despite their ancient history, scientists still hadn't fully unraveled their evolutionary story.

    Now, an international tesm of scientists has solved one of the last major mysteries in millipede #evolution, revealing new clues about a group of #animals that helped pave the way for #life on land.

    Millipedes beat vertebrates onto land by more than 80 million years.

    They set the stage for later life on land, including humans and vertebrates.

    #biology
    phys.org/news/2026-06-evolutio

    Paper by Vasquez-Valverde et al. (2026):
    cell.com/current-biology/abstr

  7. 12-Jun-2026
    Ancient #millipedes still had secrets to tell
    Researchers completed the first evolutionary history of Earth’s first #landAnimals, pushing their origins tens of millions of years deeper into the past.

    I would have called it: On the origin of millipedes ...

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #evolution #animals #terrestrial

  8. 12-Jun-2026
    Ancient #millipedes still had secrets to tell
    Researchers completed the first evolutionary history of Earth’s first #landAnimals, pushing their origins tens of millions of years deeper into the past.

    I would have called it: On the origin of millipedes ...

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #evolution #animals #terrestrial

  9. #Taxonomy!

    "_Mammamia_ gen. n. […] Etymology: The name derives from the Italian exclamation 'Mamma mia' which came to our mind when we first saw this astonishing species. Gender feminine."

    Akkari N, Stoev P, Enghoff H (2011) Two new cavernicolous genera of Julidae (Diplopoda, Julida), with notes on the tribe Brachyiulini and on julid subanal hooks and anchors. _ZooKeys_ 114: 1-14. doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.114.14 :OpenAccess:

    (via a Discord I'm in)

    #OpenAccess #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Julidae

  10. Saw this cool millipede (might be a a yellow-spotted millipede? Harpaphe haydeniana?) in a little day hike last Sunday. Ended up seeing several, but they were so cool.

    #millipedes #pnw #cascadia #insects

  11. Saw this cool millipede (might be a a yellow-spotted millipede? Harpaphe haydeniana?) in a little day hike last Sunday. Ended up seeing several, but they were so cool.

    #millipedes #pnw #cascadia #insects

  12. I had just gotten home and was taking pics of the bristle millipedes that come out at night to browse the lichen on the stonework, when a neighbour, a middle-aged lady I sort of recognized but had never really spoken to, passed by and asked what I was doing, if I was making a movie or whatever. I explained I was looking at bugs and showed her the bristle millipedes. She excitedly said she liked bugs as well, cicadas and beetles and butterflies and such, and we mutually enthused for a few minutes. I guess talking to neighbours is sometimes worth it.

    #bugstodon #arthropods #millipedes #BristleMillipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenidae

  13. How poison #frogs built a chemical weapons system one step at a time phys.org/news/2026-04-poison-f

    Experimental evidence supports gradual #evolution of alkaloid sequestration in poison frogs: Adriana Jeckel et al. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsp

    "toxins released by #PoisonFrogs, #alkaloids, are derived from their diet in the wild, consisting of specific #ants, #mites, #millipedes, & #beetles... the process developed gradually over time, with poison frogs slowly adapting to increasingly toxic diets"

  14. Die kleinen füsschenschlangen sind heute irgendwie ziemlich aktiv 🥰
    Normalerweise sind sie ja sonst eher im dunkeln unterwegs.

    #tausendfußer #millipedes

  15. Die kleinen füsschenschlangen sind heute irgendwie ziemlich aktiv 🥰
    Normalerweise sind sie ja sonst eher im dunkeln unterwegs.

    #tausendfußer #millipedes

  16. 🦊🐛 In the forests of #Madagascar, #lemurs have learned to use #millipedes as a specialized form of #medicine.

    By gently biting the #insects, the #primates trigger the release of defensive #chemicals that act as a potent repellent against #malaria-carrying #mosquitoes. The lemurs rub the secretions into their fur and even ingest small amounts to treat internal parasites. The toxins cause a brief, trancelike state.

    👉 discoverwildlife.com/tv/lemurs

    #wildlife #nature #science #biology #chemistry #evolution #BBC #animals

  17. 🦊🐛 In the forests of #Madagascar, #lemurs have learned to use #millipedes as a specialized form of #medicine.

    By gently biting the #insects, the #primates trigger the release of defensive #chemicals that act as a potent repellent against #malaria-carrying #mosquitoes. The lemurs rub the secretions into their fur and even ingest small amounts to treat internal parasites. The toxins cause a brief, trancelike state.

    👉 discoverwildlife.com/tv/lemurs

    #wildlife #nature #science #biology #chemistry #evolution #BBC #animals

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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
    doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-024

    #Photos
    ©S. F.Wirth

  21. 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
    doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-024

    #Photos
    ©S. F.Wirth

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

    #LichenSubscribe #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenidae

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

    #LichenSubscribe #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenidae

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. Fossilized nervous system points to ocean origins for #spiders & relatives phys.org/news/2025-07-fossiliz

    #Cambrian origin of the arachnid brain cell.com/current-biology/fullt

    "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"

  27. 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: bugguide.net/node/view/19106/b

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

  28. 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: bugguide.net/node/view/19106/b

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

  29. 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 [ inaturalist.org/observations/2 ].

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

  30. 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 [ inaturalist.org/observations/2 ].

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

  31. 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 ♻️
    inaturalist.org/observations/2

    #millipedes #Diplopoda #Anguidae #Reptilia #iNaturalist

  32. 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 ♻️
    inaturalist.org/observations/2

    #millipedes #Diplopoda #Anguidae #Reptilia #iNaturalist

  33. 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:
    rnz.co.nz/news/national/559018

    Ants:
    stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360662974/

    #NZ #Ants #Millipedes

  34. 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

  35. I lifted a bark and then found the smallest #millipede we have in Central Europe:

    Polyxenus lagurus (Polyxenida: Polyxenidae)

    Size is only 2-3 mm 📏
    It seems to use bark beetle tunnels 🤔

    #millipedes #SouthTyrol #Südtirol #AltoAdige #Pustertal #ValPusteria #Polyxenida #millepiedi #Tausendfüsser