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Myriapods 8 images Created 3 Apr 2012

Images of centipedes and millipedes found and photographed across North America.
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  • Found primarily in the arid regions of Texas and Northern Mexico, this huge slate millipede is also known as the Chihuahuan millipede. I found by this one by sheer accident on a chilly spring morning in the Big Bend area of Western Texas as I was winding my way up toward the Chisos Mountains.
    Slate Millipede (Comanchelus chihuanus)
  • Scolopocryptops spinicaudus is one of the many species of small-to-medium-sized bark centipedes found in the Scolopocryptopidae family that set themselves apart from other centipede families by having 23 pairs of legs instead of 21. They live in the Pacific Northwest from Northern California to Southern Alaska, where they hunt for small insects and other arthropods under rocks, dead wood and the on forest floor. This one was found scurrying across an open area next to the Carbon River near Carbonado, Washington - about 15 miles northwest of Mount Rainier.
    Bark Centipede (Scolopocryptops spin..dus)
  • Florida ivory millipede in the Kissimmee Prairie Preserve found under an oak canopy in Okeechobee County, Florida.
    Florida Ivory Millipede
  • Found primarily in the arid regions of Texas and Northern Mexico, this huge slate millipede is also known as the Chihuahuan millipede. I found by this one by sheer accident on a chilly spring morning in the Big Bend area of Western Texas as I was winding my way up toward the Chisos Mountains.
    Slate Millipede (Comanchelus chihuanus)
  • The yellow-spotted millipede also known as the almond-scented or cyanide millipede, is a fairly common millipede found in coastal Pacific forests from Central California to Alaska. Although it has few natural predators, this millipede is a perfect example of aposematism (warning coloration) and when threatened it has the ability to exude a toxic hydrogen cyanide as a defense. This one was found in the forest just off the side of the Sol Duc Trail in the Olympic Mountains of Washington State.
    Yellow-Spotted Millipede
  • Uncooperative  Texas gold millipede I found near Burro Spring, in Western Texas' Big Bend National Park. This large, fat millipede was crawling along just fine until I lifted my camera to my face.
    Texas Gold Millipede (Orthoporus orn..tus)
  • Found primarily in the arid regions of Texas and Northern Mexico, this huge slate millipede is also known as the Chihuahuan millipede. I found by this one by sheer accident on a chilly spring morning in the Big Bend area of Western Texas as I was winding my way up toward the Chisos Mountains.
    Slate Millipede (Comanchelus chihuanus)
  • Found primarily in the arid regions of Texas and Northern Mexico, this huge slate millipede is also known as the Chihuahuan millipede. I found by this one by sheer accident on a chilly spring morning in the Big Bend area of Western Texas as I was winding my way up toward the Chisos Mountains.
    Slate Millipede (Comanchelus chihuanus)