Desert Millipede

Insects and Plants are allowed to post on my Tucson Wildlife Count project mission. Anything that's seen wild in Tucson is allowed.

the link was great and the pictures looked exactly like the same body structure, thank you! I love your Tucson Wildlife Count mission. I'll try to include all of my appropriate postings. Just let me know if I include anything you don't want. So far I haven't been including bugs and plants.

You are welcome. Did you go to the link I have there? They do shed skin which adds a new segment each time and when they die they turn bleach white in the sun. I think you found a dead one. It's been dead long and ants or other insects have picked it clean on the inside. This leaves what you see in your photos. This one may have been quite old because of how long it had gotten.

thanks for the ID!

I was wondering the same thing Keith. It looks like millipedes do molt. The inside of the tubular cavity was completely hollowed out so I think the evidence may support this.

Could it be shed skin?

yes