DIPLOPODA (MILLIPEDE)

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS

• I inch to I Foot
• Brown,black,red or yellow
• 15 - 200 pairs of legs
• Have up to 750 legs
• Have exo skeletons
• Round body

HABITAT

• Woods
• Under logs
• Damp places outside
• Flower beds
• Gardens

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ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE

REPRODUCTION

• Sexual
• Egg and sperm
• Lay 2000 eggs
• They make a nest to lay the eggs

DIET

• What they eat: rotting wood, dead plants, fallen leaves. Some millipedes are carnivores.
• They get their food by using their sharp teeth to grind bark
• They find their food in the woods.

PREDATOR/PREY RELATIONSHIP

• Some eat insects and spiders.
• They have poison claws and pincers
• It holds its prey and bites it pieces off the animal

STATUS OF THESE ORGANISMS IN THE WORLD TODAY

• Humans don't really impact the populations only when the millipedes infest the home
• There are 8,000 species and 1,000 species in North America
• There aren't any species that are in danger but some species there is a lot of the.

MILLIPEDE

FACTS

• Japan train millipedes to get ran over by trains
• Roll into a ball if threatened
• Some can jump 1-inch

CITATION

• www.orkin.com
• www.earthlife.net
• Greenaway, Theresa, Chris Fairclough, Dick Twinney, and Stefan Chabluk. Centipedes and Millipedes. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 2000. Print.
• Schaffer, Donna. Millipedes. Mankato, MN: Bridgestone, 1999. Print.