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Terraformer millipede

Posted on June 13, 2014 by nannaria

This millipede is Narceus americanus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1817) that I found curled up in the trunk of a live tree. At night, N. americanus is known to climb trees and graze on algae and fungus adhering to the surface … Continue reading →

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Fieldwork at La Selva, Costa Rica

Posted on June 7, 2014 by nannaria

In search of millipedes, we’re dismantling this fantastically rotten log in La Selva, Costa Rica [left to right: Petra Sierwald, curator at the Field Museum; Jackson Means, grad student in the lab; Jason Bond, professor at Auburn University; Paul Marek, … Continue reading →

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Fieldwork in Costa Rica

Posted on June 6, 2014 by nannaria

Sphaeriodesmid millipede from La Selva, Costa Rica (collected by J. Means) Last week, Jackson Means and I were in Costa Rica collecting material for an NSF project. Overall the trip was successful and we collected lots of fresh material for … Continue reading →

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Myriapodologica, now online

Posted on June 6, 2014 by nannaria

With kind permission from the Virginia Museum of Natural History (Martinsville, Virginia) and special thanks to Tim McCoy for digitizing, we are proud to announce that the journal Myriapodologica is now available online and open access. Published from 1978 – … Continue reading →

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