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Oxidus gracilis
I had a nice little experience with the Flat Backed millipede previously this year. (http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/950...) I blogged about it, here: (http://procezzed.blogspot.com/2012/03/fl...) , and that was that. Until now... I saw the most ridiculous thing I may have ever seen. A colony of them? I have no explanation of what they could be doing all clustered together like I found them at the base of an oak tree. The tree forks apart like V and right at the fork, we have two landscaping lights for emphasis that my parents placed there. Here I found MILLIONS OF MILLIPEDES. Obviously exaggerating but seriously there were so many of them, all in this one spot. It makes me itch to think about. I tried to find something online about why they would do this, maybe proximity at birth or something I could not find anything.
more commentary at: http://procezzed.blogspot.com/2012/04/fl...
Spotted on Apr 4, 2012
Submitted on Apr 10, 2012
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