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North American millipede

Narceus americanus-annularis-complex

Description:

Large millipede

Notes:

While taking a walk at Black Hand Gorge, we cam across this massive millipede. I picked it up to show my daughter and then sent it on its way.

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1 Comment

KristalWatrous
KristalWatrous 12 years ago

This is probably a Large American Millipede, genus Narceus - http://bugguide.net/node/view/15012. Here's a similar spotting of mine: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/734....

cjcrook
Spotted by
cjcrook

Ohio, USA

Spotted on Oct 4, 2009
Submitted on Nov 4, 2011

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