Diplopodology (MILLIPEDES & CENTIPEDES) with Dr. Derek Hennen
Ologies with Alie Ward
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The Chemical Defences of Millipedes
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
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