Q: This worm-sized, non-worm appeared in the garden near my stumpery. Plant pest? Beneficial? I’m stumped! A: Stumperies are lovely garden features, like a vignette of the forest floor, that I wish ...

AUSTRALIA -- Millipedes have lots of legs. It's a defining feature of this creature, which is neither worm nor insect. However, despite a name derived from the Latin for thousand (mille) and feet (pes ...

Scientists have observed red-fronted lemurs in Madagascar biting millipedes and then rubbing themselves with the secretions. A team of researchers published their observations in the journal Primates, ...

Like many folks, I never paid much attention to millipedes — those wormlike, multilegged creatures that crawl about in the leaf litter and hide under logs and rocks on the forest floor. But now, I ...

Many pests can make their way into your home. Most aren't dangerous, but some can pose a risk to your health and safety. One of these pests, the millipede, might be scary to see, but it's harmless to ...

One day half a billion years ago, when Earth was primarily populated by a menagerie of undersea blobs, a spiky little millipede took a stroll along the muddy ocean floor — and died. What do we know ...

At night, we saw a vicious predator attacking a much larger prey. In the morning, we saw the brightest red blood I have ever seen. We were not anywhere near African big game. A larval insect was the ...