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A great way to see all the details on these insects and other small
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Latin name: Tachypodoiulus niger
Size: Up to 30mms long
Distribution: Found throughout the U.K.
Months seen: All year round
Food: Feeds on dead and living vegetation
Habitat: found under logs and stones, in leaf litter and other damp and shady places.
Special features: There are over fifty different species of millipede found in the UK. All have elongated bodies, and all are fairly slow moving. The photograph above shows one of the more common species known as the black snake millipede.
 They can have between 41 and 56 segments to their elongated bodies, and each body segment has four legs. When resting they curl up like a watch
spring.
Did You Know?
Although the word millipede means thousand legs, the greatest number of legs found on a millipede is 750.
 Life
in the Undergrowth DVD
David Attenborough's new series exploring the world of insects and arachnids
hidden in the undergrowth at Amazon.co.uk
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