Flat-Backed Millipedes

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Flat-Backed Millipedes are fascinating creatures that love to curl up in tight spaces. They have many tiny legs that help them move around quickly in their habitats!

Lebensraum: They live in damp forests, gardens, and under leaf litter.

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The Flat-Backed Millipedes has a distinctly flattened body, giving it a broad, ribbon-like appearance. They often display drab colors like brown or black, sometimes with striking yellow or orange markings along their sides. This flat shape helps them squeeze into narrow crevices.

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Flat-Backed Millipedes

Kategorie

Invertebrate

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

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Interessante Fakten

Baby millipedes are born with only a few legs, growing more with each time they shed their skin.

Flat-backed millipedes have a special breathing pore on almost every body segment.

Some Flat-Backed Millipedes can glow in the dark, lighting up the forest floor at night!

Their bright yellow or orange markings often warn predators that they taste very bad!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Flat-Backed Millipedes can release foul-smelling or toxic chemicals because of glands on their sides that deter predators.

Flat-Backed Millipedes have tough, overlapping segments that help them protect their soft underside from attacks.

Flat-Backed Millipedes has a low-profile body that helps them squeeze into tight spaces under bark and rocks for safety.

Maße und Details

Length Mm: 10-120 mm
Weight Mg: 50-5000 mg
Num Segments: 19-30
Num Legs: 40-200

Ernährung und Fütterung

These tiny clean-up crew members eat dead plants, helping return nutrients to the soil.

Hauptnahrung

decaying leaves
rotting wood
fungi
decomposing plant matter

Nahrungssuche

Foraging

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

eaten by

Ground Beetle

Carabus nemoralis

Ground beetles are known predators of various invertebrates.

eaten by

Wood Ant

Formica rufa

Some ant species prey on smaller invertebrates like millipedes.

eaten by

Torrent Frog

Hylodes asper

Amphibians often feed on forest floor invertebrates.

depends on

Common Oak

Quercus robur

Feeds on fallen leaves and decaying wood from oak trees.

Merkmale

Graben

Grabende Tiere heben Tunnel und Kammern im Erdboden aus und nutzen diese unterirdischen Strukturen als Unterschlupf, zur Jagd oder zur Fortpflanzung.

Pflanzenfressend

Dieses Merkmal kennzeichnet Lebewesen, deren Ernährung vollständig oder hauptsächlich aus pflanzlichem Material besteht.

Wald

Waldlebensräume sind terrestrische Lebensräume, die von dichtem Baumbestand dominiert werden und eine große Vielfalt an Pflanzen- und Tierarten beherbergen.