The Chemical Defences of Millipedes

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The common name is slug millipedes, cause it cind look like a little slug. The ones that do smell, theyre some that i call em chapstick milipedes. To elicit any millipede to really release its chemical defenses, you just have to pick it up and move it around in your hand,. And these ones, they smell like camphor or chapstick or something weirdly chemical. It's super cool. But there are others that smell just like just the worst. There's the setao called the crested millipeds. They look really cool when they secrete the chemical defences - typically they're going to be this nice chocolate brown collar. Then

How many legs? Why so many legs? What's a millipede versus a centipede? And again WHY SO MANY LEGS. We have just the guy for that: Diplopodologist Dr. Derek Hennen. As a person who’s spent over a decade sorting through leaf litter and naming scores of new species, Derek is truly a champion for the multi-limbed little critters. If you liked what Casey Clapp brought to Dendrology, get ready to appreciate millipedes like you never thought you would. Also: mythology gossip, world records, Taylor Swift fandom, and sniffing bugs.

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