#millipede posting

[or-not-2b---i-dont-know]

I'm kinda glad that the Btt80s fandom is so small cause I feel like it would be so easy to mischaracterise ALL of the characters

[whispers-of-magic]

MY MILLIPEDE BABIES ARRIVED !!!!

Atopochetus spinimargo Thailand

[kiiingsnake]

you should post your millipede

HOW DID YUO FIND OUT ABOUT MY MILLIPEDE

anyways here it is

[nocturnal-stims]

Millipede under UV light. Many species of arthropods fluoresce, or glow, under ultraviolet light due to due to fluorescent compounds in their exoskeletons. At least one millipede genus, motyxia, is actually bioluminescent, meaning it can produce light on its own.

🐛 b.seahphotography on IG

[bug-kisser]

Let's eat dirt with mama

[mossybugblog]

Millipede! 💖

[star-manis]

bug time bug time bug time

[dosiadove]

i need more friends who love bugs. I cant take telling people i love bugs and there reaction being "i hate them i kill everyone i see", or "ew" ( and then giving me a weird look. where are the bug lovers? where are my friends? let me show you my collection, lets draw insects together, lets make power points of our favorites.

[mrmillipede]

another you (reupload)

[or-not-2b---i-dont-know]

This is the best thing I've ever drawn.

[feligayzed]

Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah (⁠~⁠‾⁠▿⁠‾⁠)⁠~

[infinitystation]

truly the puppy of the bug world

[motherlarkspur]

It's actually technically a human milipede because each segment has two pairs of limbs

[hotttgrilled-cheese]

C'mon Steve you have like 12 of them, you gotta share with your bestie 🙄

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[bestanimal]

Round 2 - Arthropoda - Pauropoda

(Sources - 1, 2, 3, 4)

Pauropoda is a class of small, pale, millipede-like arthropods. They are composed of two orders: the Hexamerocerata with eleven pairs of legs and telescopic antennae and the Tetramerocerata with eight to ten pairs of legs and short, non-telescopic antennae.

Pauropods live in soil and leaf litter worldwide, feeding on mold, fungi, and occasionally the root hairs of plants. They are small, soft-bodied animals, only 0.3 to 2 mm in length. They do not have eyes, though they do have sensory organs which detect light. Long, sensory hairs called trichobothria are located throughout their body segments. Their anal plate is distinctive, helping distinguish between species.

Like centipedes, pauropods do not mate directly. Males place a sperm packet on the ground for females to find. Females deposit the fertilized eggs on the ground and subsequently abandon them. Tetrameroceratans hatch with three pairs of legs and Hexameroceratans with six, adding a new segment after each molt in a process called anamorphosis. Pauropods will continue molting even after their adult number of segments is reached, without adding any further segments or legs.

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Gif comes from this video. Look at him sniffin around!

The first pauropod discovered was found by Lord Avebury in his own garden in London in 1866. He wrote of the creature: “Pauropus huxleyi is a bustling, active, neat and cleanly creature. It has, too, a look of cheerful intelligence, which forms a great contrast to the dull stupidity of the Diplopods, or the melancholy ferocity of most Chilopods.” (Which, kinda rude, but y’know)

Only one fossil species is known, Eopauropus balticus, which was found in mid-Eocene Baltic amber.

[mlmxreader]

caught one of the baby roaches hitching a ride on Private 🥹