April 27th, 2020 : Motyxia Millipedes

Out in Sequoia country everyone is walking around looking up because they’re there to see the very big trees. But if one should
trip over something like a child or midget height challenged person, one might see a millipede like this one...



Don’t eat it.
Sure it’s plump and juicy like a canapé, and smells like almonds, but it will make you plenty sick.
It smells like almonds because it’s oozing hydrogen cyanide, lots of it.
It’s one of only 8 out of 12,000 millipedes (that we know of) with natural bioluminescence so it glows in the dark.
Without eyes it can’t see a predator coming but over time the predators have learned it will make them very ill... if it doesn’t kill.



So little millipede is saying here I am, night and day, bring it on bitch.

You can get a shirt on Amazon with a night picture of it that says "I'm Lit".

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Around here, our glow worms eat millipedes.
https://bugguide.net/node/view/147214/bgimage

All they do is squirt some glow juice in 'em, then wait for the 'pede to dissolve from the inside, Then eat 'em.

That is the larva, this the adult:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/635503/bgimage

Hey, that don't look like no worm to me .

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Next you'll be saying clams got legs.