Mastodawn

🦊🐛 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.

👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/tv/lemurs-licking-millipedes-bbc

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

“Complete intoxication.” Lemurs in Madagascar are licking millipedes – and it’s sending them into a “trancelike state” | Discover Wildlife

To protect themselves from malaria-carrying mosquitoes, some lemurs in Madagascar are turning to poisonous insects – with unusual side effects

Discover Wildlife

Abhijit Menon-Sen Dec 21

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

WiNoDa Knowledge Lab Dec 9

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

Caught In The Web: Navigating Challenges In Digitizing The Arachnid & Myriapod Collections

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neville park Nov 30

bristle millipede, why not

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

Stefan F. Wirth Nov 17

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

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©S. F.Wirth

neville park Oct 13

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

#LichenSubscribe #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenidae

charring auh Oct 9

#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