Introducing one of the newest species of millipedes, the colorful Apheloria uwharrie, from the Uwharrie Mountains of North Carolina. More about this species and others in its genus is in our revision in Zootaxa — www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...

🥰 Forget about #scientific forums: nothing beats grabbing the attention of a few dozens of 16-year-olds! 📸 Yesterday, me & colleagues at @pensoft.net visited the Izzi Science school in Bulgaria to introduce the next generation to #scholarlypublishing & #scicomm and their role in #society & policy!

Congratulations @apheloria.bsky.social & @allbugsgotokevin.bsky.social Today’s NYT mini crossword had a clue about eumillipes persephone! #myriapods #millipede

pretty japygid dipluran from our recent collecting expedition, this one from near Kaweah in the CA southern Sierran foothills I love the beadlike antennae, and the splayed posture one common name is "forcepstails", but these are unrelated to "earwigs"

UITOTO for taxonomy. Get your molecular diagnoses right without coding or breaking a sweat! Use state-specific, contrastive DMCs instead of fuzzy consensus barcodes! 🪰🦋🪱🦎🦀🐌🦉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

It’s #myriapodmonday! Did you know there are #millipedes in #Alaska? The Alexander Archipelago and Kodiak Island are the northern and western limits of millipedes in North America. Litiulus alaskanus #entomology #bugs #nature #photography #macro

Thanks to all the myriapod and velvetworm researchers for joining us on Tuesday for the Myriapod Meet Up 2025! There were 98 participants from 27 countries. It was awesome to see everyone and hear about your fascinating research! Looking forward to seeing folks in person this summer at ICM!

Biodiversity Media Grants 2025 – approaching deadline! 🌍🧪 @earthjournalism.bsky.social is offering grants (up to €12k) to media organizations from low- or middle-income countries to boost #biodiversity reporting. Deadline: 📅 March 30, 2025 🔗Apply 👉 loom.ly/oll1WRE

Arthropod Photo of the Week: March 26, 2025 Montane paradise jumping spider Habronattus altanus Araneae: Salticidae By Marshal Hedin (@mhedin.bsky.social), California, USA #arthropodPOTW

Shaky footage but here's a few seconds of a Bristly Millipede (Polyxenus lagurus) gliding across a lichen covered wall at Hethel church today.

Opisthodolichopus scandens is an arboreal millipede that’s easy to find in Singapore. I’m confused by their apparent sexual dimorphism—aren’t polydesmidan millipedes all blind? Who are these signals for?

In 20 years, the U.S. has lost 22% of its butterflies, a groundbreaking new study found. Look up population changes in your area here.

Qué poco sabemos de la naturaleza que nos rodea... Os presento a Ceratosphys dissensionis, una nueva especie de milpiés que hemos descubierto en el abedular de Somosierra, Madrid (ES). Acaba de publicarse el trabajo aquí: sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiqu... Tantas especies y tan poco tiempo...

Myriapod Meet Up 2025 — 25 March, 8AM - 5PM (EDT). This online event will include short talks, and a chance to share and discuss research about myriapods (and other multipedes, e.g. Onychophora). Anyone may participate in this free event (no need to give a talk).

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #DyddGŵylDewiHapus #HappyStDavid'sDay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 To celebrate, here is one of our favourite species to occur on #collieryspoil - the Celtic Ghost Millipede (Psichrosoma cf breuili). Known only from South Wales (globally), it was found new to science in 2015 from Newbridge, Caerphilly, by Christian Owen.

Spider Biology Field Course!! from July 1 - 9, 2025 experience the outstanding biodiversity of spiders and non-spider arachnids found in montane southeastern AZ; taught by Greta Binford, Paula Cushing, & Marshal Hedin $946 for tuition, room & board. See www.amnh.org/research/sou... for details.

#NewSpecies! New millipede from #thailand just rolled in: Sphaerobelum petramurum Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/7F56B2A4-... Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zse.... #ZoosystematicsAndEvolution #SphaerobelumPetramurum #FAIRdata #science #biodiversity #nature #conservation #diplopoda #millipedes

Here’s a nice portrait of one. These are among my favorite animals to find. So fun to watch.

The Beddau Beast (Cranogona dalensi) is a small off-white, winter-active millipede that is known (globally) only from the western Pyrenees and Cwm Tips, near Beddau. These individuals were seen at Cwm Tips yesterday. #millipedes #invertebrates #myriapoda #Wales #collieryspoil

Some of the coolest and perhaps most under-appreciated African carnivores are solifuges. The ferocity of these incredible arachnids, a.k.a. camel spiders or sun spiders, easily matches that of the wild dogs and, just like the canines, they can dismember their prey in a matter of seconds.

A flat-backed millipede cruising along though the rainforest. Their leg motion is mesmerizing. #inverts (Family Platyrhacidae) Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador

I enjoyed the lone, tiny myrmecophilic springtail in this one Citronella ants + mealybugs + springtail

did get a few tachyines, and some neat macro-bugs: a clown weevil (Eudiagogus pulcher) and a Eurymerodesmus millipede

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Sophie Lutterlough researched #myriapods and #ticks after a career doing several jobs at the Smithsonian! siarchives.si.edu/blog/sophie-... #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

welcome to the world new spider genus Siskiyu. you've been lurking in the dark, magical woods of far northern California for millenia. Now the humans have finally gotten around to telling your story, at least in part this research was funded by the NSF OA here zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1402...

For #FossilFriday meet something of a rarity - a fossil centipede. Like last week's fossil, this is a macerate - the remains of an animal dissolved out of a rock using strong acid. The fossil, called Devonobius, is from NY state, and is around 385 million years old. Isn't it cool? 🤩 ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

Also I am brining 2 arthropod sticker designs to force onto people. I wanted to bring a bunch of different ones but it's really expensive to do small batches and I am a poor.

I just so happened to get a mosquito in this wide angle macro photograph of a cherry millipede, Apheloria virginiensis corrugata (Wood, 1864).

A short break from #BugoftheYear content to bring you Pauropods! These tiny relatives of millipedes possess unique branching antennae, and feed on fungi and organic matter. They’re found in leaf litter, soil, under stones and logs, but at <2 mm length you’ll struggle to spot them! #Invertebrate 🧪

a rare invert #FossilFriday because these Carboniferous millipedes are really cool

For #FossilFriday meet Archidesmus - this is a ~411 million year old fossil millipede. It's part of a broader group, the superorder Archipolypoda. Amongst other traits, these millipedes are recognised through their large ~compound eyes, and modified 8th leg pair used for reproduction. ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

A new alkaloid chemical was recently discovered in the millipede Ischnocybe plicata Cook & Loomis, 1928. Named ischnocybine, it disorients ants and appears to bind to some neuroreceptors. Open access article by C. Menegatti and E. Mevers et al. here: doi.org/10.1021/acs....

Phyodesmus, a Bornean endemic genus of very large platyrhacid millipede. this one looked like an ambulatory spinal column

The nationally rare flat-backed #millipede Propolydesmus testaceus from woodland along the River Taf near Edwardsville, Merthyr Tydfil, today. Found by Christian Owen. @sewbrec.org.uk

Fun fact: the identity of the millipede on the right on this page wasn't known until recently--140 years later! Now known as Packardesmus cavicola www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...

I was happier to see this giant Narceus millipede in hill country yesterday than it was to see me. It curled into this defensive spiral and just sat there. Made a nice photo, though. With bonus mites, if you look closely.

Millepedehood is a spectrum

🎉 Happy California Millipede Season for those who celebrate it! 🌧️ As the rains come, we are starting to see fascinating millipede discoveries on @inaturalist.bsky.social, like these feather millipedes, Brachycybe producta Loomis, 1936 from Mount Tamalpais #MillipedeMonday

a little millipede diversity from one night in Sarawak: representatives from orders Polydesmida, Spirobolida, Platydesmida (?), and Sphaerotheriida

A troglomorphic millipede discovered in subterranean pitfall traps in the Appalachian Mountains. In a few months, our team will start these in California (Tulare, San Benito, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, and San Diego counties). #MillipedeMonday #NCBIAccession PP979230 ecdysis.org/collections/...

For our first post here — a handsome millipede of the genus Platydesmus from Costa Rica. Its family Platydesmidae is differentiated from other families by its very widely spaced coxa. Colleagues recently described several new species of its relatives from Vietnam: t.co/ne1HhX6NOe #MillipedeMonday