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Tiny millipede

Tiny millipede
New Market, Madison County, Alabama, USA
February 14, 2006
This is a very small millipede I find around here quite a bit. At most they probably get about 2 inches long. And this one just happened to be feeding on bird droppings.

Moved
Moved from Millipedes.

A representative (unknown gen
A representative (unknown genus & species) of the indigenous North American family Parajulidae (order Julida). Parajulidae is the dominant millipede family in North America, which occurs, or may be expected, in the Alaskan panhandle, all the major provinces of Canada from BC to New Brunswick, every county in every state of the lower 48, every state in Mexico, and in most of Guatemala.

Moved
to Diplopoda page

Too hard
for me to even figure our to Order. There are four orders of cylindrical millipedes.

i dont know too much about millipedes
i know they are decomposers but ive never heard of a millipede feeding on bird droppings, awesome!

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