DenaDaleCrain

Lovely photo, Ivan; don't think I've seen any better than this one!

Fabulous photo; well done! I want to use those colors in a quilt!! ;-)

Great photo, and cute spider as well, but watch out! They BITE!

We have them in Kenya, and if you leave them alone, they are happy to jump out of your way. Threaten them and you'll end up with a nasty scar that takes a long time to heal--ugly venom these guys have!

Sorry, dandoucette, no, he doesn't. It's clearly a millipede, but not a species with which we are familiar.

Thanks, MaryOhkwari, for referring readers to the story on my blog. Although I'm a patchwork quilt artist and teacher by occupation, living in "the bush" in Africa for over 20 years has given me some sensitivity to the natural world and I have my own history of animal rescue.

I have this from Wikipedia: "The giant African millipede (Archispirostreptus gigas), known as shongololos (same word spelled differently--this is mine), is the largest species of millipede." My husband is something of an internationally recognized naturalist, and he says he's never seen the Madagascar Fire Millipede in Kenya. You might want to check out the Wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millepede. "10,000 species" !!