🌍 This #EarthDay, we're celebrating the billions of organisms beneath our feet that recycle nutrients, store carbon, and promote ecosystem resilience! 🪱
No soil biodiversity = No life aboveground 🍄
From springtails to fungi to enchytraeids, we rely on them all!
A pair of large black millipedes sitting in my hand.
May I interest anyone in a couple of millipedes?
Intag Refugio, Ecuador
Every species has a story—but without a name, that story may never be told. 🌍✨
On May 23, we celebrate #Taxonomy, the science that names, classifies, and describes life on #Earth.
We invite you to join us—discover how on our website 🔗
tettris.eu/trd/
Species descriptions should not be confined to "summary" PDFs only providing access to a fraction of the data underlying the conclusions. We here argue for "digitally native species" built around structured, specimen-linked, machine-actionable evidence from day one. rdcu.be/fcbwh
A newly described fossil from Utah reveals a pincer-wielding sea creature from the Cambrian. It may be one of the oldest relatives of spiders, scorpions and horseshoe crabs (Not an April Fool's joke, I swear!) 🕷️ 🦂
Latest for @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/s...
Open postdoc position in my lab at Cornell, conducting comparative and experimental studies on transcriptomic responses to diet and toxins, utilizing the milkweed-insect community. Background in molecular bio & herbivory desired. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31867
This is a drawing of multiple pink arthropods on a light pink background. In the middle of this drawing there's a text "pink bug club". Each arthropod is labeled with their scientific name. Bugs shown are: gyponana gladia, phromnia rosea, asphaera quadrifasciata, cheilomenes aurora and cheilomenes bidentata,thomisus onustus, microphotus angustus, cubaris cherry blossom, dryocampa runicunda (aka rosy maple moth), hymenopus coronatus (aka orchid mantis),aedophron rhodites,cithaerias aurorina snd brachycybe rosea
I know beauty exists because bugs are so full of it💞
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#bugs #myart #arthropods #biology #art
A new millipede species, Riukiaria langyaensis, has recently been discovered, with its entire mitochondrial genome also mapped.
Read the full study here: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1272.182977
#newspecies #millipede
An exciting day for #NewSpecies, 24 new species (including new genera and a new superfamily!) of Amphipoda from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone! Was amazing to work on this with so many inspiring amphipod taxonomists
A simple celebratory post about completing my PhD went viral for all the wrong reasons. Here’s how I managed the backlash and used the attention to promote my research, says Juliet Turner
go.nature.com/4sQu3uX
Apply for up to £1,500 for systematics/taxonomy projects via LinneSys. Members of The Systematics Association or the Linnean Society are eligible. Deadline: March 27, 23:59 GMT+1. More info: https://systass.org/linnesys/
10 days remaining to submit your Mini-ARTS award! These awards are for revisionary taxonomy and systematics. Up to $4,000 is available per award. For guidelines and to submit your application, see our website
www.systbio.org/mini-arts-aw...
A flyer for Myriapod Meet-Up 2026. The flyer has a picture of a millipede on it. The millipede is tan and has a cone-shaped head.
Myriapod Meet Up 2026 will be on 1 April, 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 beautiful Malagasy pill millipede
isopods wish they had as much pure swag as a pill millipede 🩵💛
Experienced identifier, thirty_legs, on @inaturalist.bsky.social has done 80,000 identifications—mostly earthworms! 🤯 Kudos!
(P.S., if you're ever trying to get an earthworm identification, be sure to take photos of the many angles you see in this thread!)
According to experienced earthworm-identifier thirty_legs on iNaturalist, this species is "unique in their soil-feeding habit and pale color in a genus of mostly red, litter/wood-eating forest worms." There are currently only 2 iNaturalist observations on record!
Traditional sketchbook drawing of a millipede in the shape of an infinity symbol in black and red. It's a little messy and has so, so many wiggly legs. Tiny handwriting says "infinipede?" and "oh what if it was RAINBOW" nearby. Dated November 2021.
Two work-in-progress shots of a millipede design made to look like an infinity symbol. Its body is curling around so both the stripes on its back and its many legs can be seen getting drawn in. The top only has some of the back stripes and part of the legs cleaned up. The bottom has all the back stripes and legs partly transparent to check against a sketched-over guide for the general curve of the body.
Photo of two vinyl stickers of stylized millipedes posed to resemble infinity symbols. Both have metallic color areas for their legs and between their black body segments - the top is rainbow, the bottom is red. They are on a brown-grey background. Text reads "Shop.Mothmonar.ch"
Several infinity symbol shaped millipede stickers with metallic red stripes are fanned out on a wood floor.
Mess around and make something, millipede edition!
Subterranean ecosystems are key to water, climate, biodiversity & culture. But to what extent?
As part of @biodiversa.eu DarCo we demonstrate that they contribute to 75% of classified ecosystem services. Read OA in Biol Rev:
doi.org/10.1002/brv....
Illustration @jmalumbresolarte.bsky.social
UVライトを当てると、まるで蒼炎のよう。
ウエノオビヤスデ
a white hairy millipede with parenthesis shaped eyes
Trichopetalum (asparagoid) has more observations than Trichopetalum (millipede) so every time I’ve uploaded one I put it on as the plant because that comes up first and I had to go fix it. this little beebee deserves better than identity theft
Cool observation. Maybe Rettenmeyeria or Calymmodesmus (Polydesmida, Pyrgodesmidae). There is a paper by Rettenmeyer that says the millipedes follow the chemical trails and the ants even carry them along. They suggest that the millipedes may be beneficial to the ants. www.jstor.org/stable/25083...
Flatbacked #millipede I think, cruising unmolested amidst this #ant colonynon the move in Costa Rica. A #parasite, I guess?
fanciful illustration of a Uriunceustreptus millipede, patterned with colorful squares in stripes of reddish brown and dark blue
U is for Uriunceustreptus
Close-up of a curled desert millipede on soil and a stretched millipede on concrete, highlighting their role as natural decomposers.
As we get ready to walk into the #NewYear, many people have a tradition walking around the neighborhood to reflect. One of the most abundant number of feet you’ll find anywhere in the city is on the Desert Millipede.
#WildlifeWednesday | #OneAlbuquerque
how about a little candy cane feather pede on this Christmas Day!
the same little bug is closer to the camera, showing its branched antennae
beeby
Four color morphs of the millipede species Apheloria uwharrie. One has three yellow spots, two have red stripes, and one has two yellow spots.
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...
