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Millipede Lab @apheloria.bsky.social · 5d

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...

Four color morphs of the millipede species Apheloria uwharrie. One has three yellow spots, two have red stripes, and one has two yellow spots.

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Iva Boyadzhieva @ivaboyadzhieva.bsky.social · May 9

🥰 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!

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John B @johncburnett.bsky.social · May 2

Congratulations @apheloria.bsky.social & @allbugsgotokevin.bsky.social

Today’s NYT mini crossword had a clue about eumillipes persephone! #myriapods #millipede

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Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social · Apr 7

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"

depigmented, blind insect relative with beadlike antennae and dark, pincerlike terminal cerci, crawling over pink granite

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Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social · Apr 4

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...

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Adam Haberski @ahaberski.bsky.social · Mar 31

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

A macro photograph of a male Alaskan millipede, Litiulus alaskanus, rearing up on a stick

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Millipede Lab @apheloria.bsky.social · Mar 27

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!

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IPBES @ipbes.net · Mar 27

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

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · Mar 26

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

Close-up of a jumping spider on a brown surface. The spider has prominent black eyes and a hairy body with a mix of light and dark patterns. Its front legs are slightly raised.

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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · Mar 23

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

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · Mar 12

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?

a cream-colored millipede with beadlike body segments, with pink on the margins and the tip of the fairly long legs

an orange millipede with beadlike body segments, with a dark stripe on the back and yellow legs

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Mar 6

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.

See How Butterfly Numbers Are Dropping Near You

Populations are falling in the United States, a new study has found. Look up what’s happening in your area.

www.nytimes.com

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txomingh.bsky.social @txomingh.bsky.social · Feb 25

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...

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Millipede Lab @apheloria.bsky.social · Mar 1

have fun in those caves. if you find some male Pseudotremia, we could do a photo shoot in the lab. there aren't enough good photos of them.

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Millipede Lab @apheloria.bsky.social · Mar 1

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).

A picture of a flyer for Myriapod Meet-up 2025. There is an image of a millipede, and details about the date and time of the online meeting. The date of the meeting is on March 25, 2025 at 8:00AM - 5:00PM, New York, US (UTC -4). The Marek lab at Virginia Tech is hosting the 2025 Myriapod Meet-up. The Meet-up will be a chance to talk about Myriapoda, and catch up with colleagues. Those interested in presenting their myriapod-related studies, are invited to give a 5-minute lightning style talk (3 mins. talk + 2 mins. questions). These talks will provide a venue to share your exciting myriapod (or Onychophora) related research in a low-pressure relaxed setting. There will be open discussion sessions from 10-10:30AM, 12-12:30PM, and 3-3:30PM, to ask further questions and for general discussion. You are certainly welcome to not give a talk, and to observe and/or discuss. If you would like to participate in this Meet-up, please register at the blue link to the left. Be sure to provide your email address, so that we can send you a Zoom link for the meeting.

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Colliery Spoil Biodiversity Initiative @collieryspoil.bsky.social · Mar 1

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #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.

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Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social · Feb 26

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Plazi @plazi-species.bsky.social · Feb 14

#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

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · Feb 16

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

A flat-backed millipede climbing over a log.

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Colliery Spoil Biodiversity Initiative @collieryspoil.bsky.social · Feb 17

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

A selection of images of a small, off-white millipede that is commonly referred to as the Beddau Beast since (in the UK) it is found only at Cwm Tips, near Beddau, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales.

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Piotr Naskrecki @piotr-naskrecki.bsky.social · Feb 17

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.

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Millipede Lab @apheloria.bsky.social · Feb 16

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · Feb 16

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

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Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social · Feb 16

I enjoyed the lone, tiny myrmecophilic springtail in this one

Citronella ants + mealybugs + springtail

orange colored Citronella ants beneath a rock, some carrying small mealybug insects in their mandibles, with a tiny springtail in their midst

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Curt H @tyuge.bsky.social · Feb 12

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

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