Saturday September 03, 2011 at 13:51

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rhamphotheca: Garden Centipedes (class Symphyla) … also known as glasshouse symphylans, are soil-dwelling  Myriapods. Symphylans resemble centipedes, but are smaller and translucent. They can move rapidly through the pores between soil particles, and are typically found from the surface down to a depth of about 50 cm. They consume decaying vegetation, but can do considerable harm in an agricultural setting by consuming seeds, roots, and root hairs in cultivated soil. Juveniles have six pairs of legs, but, over a lifetime of several years, add an additional pair at each moultso that the adult instar has twelve pairs of legs. Lacking eyes, their antennae serve as sense organs. They have several features linking them to early insects, such as a labium (fused second maxillae), an identical number of head segments and certain features of their legs. About 200 species are known worldwide… (read more: Wikipedia)   (photo: Sonia Martinez)

rhamphotheca:

Garden Centipedes (class Symphyla)

… also known as glasshouse symphylans, are soil-dwelling  Myriapods. Symphylans resemble centipedes, but are smaller and translucent. They can move rapidly through the pores between soil particles, and are typically found from the surface down to a depth of about 50 cm. They consume decaying vegetation, but can do considerable harm in an agricultural setting by consuming seeds, roots, and root hairs in cultivated soil.

Juveniles have six pairs of legs, but, over a lifetime of several years, add an additional pair at each moultso that the adult instar has twelve pairs of legs. Lacking eyes, their antennae serve as sense organs. They have several features linking them to early insects, such as a labium (fused second maxillae), an identical number of head segments and certain features of their legs. About 200 species are known worldwide…

(read more: Wikipedia)   (photo: Sonia Martinez)

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