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Millipedes can be an unwanted nuisance particularly in greenhouses where they can potentially cause severe damage to emergent seedlings. Most millipedes defend themselves with a variety of chemicals secreted from pores along the body, although the tiny bristle millipedes are covered with tufts of detachable bristles. Its primary defence ...
Wild wedge-capped capuchin monkeys (Cebus olivaceus) self-anoint with millipedes (Orthoporus dorsovittatus).Chemical analysis revealed these millipedes secrete two benzoquinones, compounds known to be potently repellent to insects [6] and the secretions are thought to provide protection against insects, particularly mosquitoes (and the bot flies they transmit) during the rainy season.
Polyxenus lagurus, known as the bristly millipede is a species of millipede found in many areas of Europe and North America. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is covered with detachable bristles that have the ability to entangle ants and spiders that attack the animal.
Centipedes eat other household pests, so you may actually want them around.
Their heads differ in that millipedes have short, elbowed antennae, a pair of robust mandibles and a single pair of maxillae fused into a lip; centipedes have long, threadlike antennae, a pair of small mandibles, two pairs of maxillae and a pair of large venom claws. [10] A representative millipede and centipede (not necessarily to scale)
Mandibulates include the crustaceans, myriapods (centipedes and millipedes), and all true insects. The name "Mandibulata" refers to the mandibles , a modified pair of limbs used in food processing, the presence of which are characteristic of most members of the group.
Once the millipede is paralyzed the glowworm larvae will begin to eat it starting at the front and working its way to the back. [12] Similarly, the ant will take the millipede back to its nest and will begin to eat the greenhouse millipede one ring at a time. [11] The greenhouse millipede eats decaying organic matter. [13]
Millipedes in this order grow and develop through a series of molts, adding segments and legs until they reach a fixed number in the adult stage, which is the same in a given species. Adults continue to molt, but they do not add segments or legs. This mode of development is known as hemianamorphosis. [12]