{"id":472,"date":"2010-04-27T04:27:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T11:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thaibugs.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=472"},"modified":"2010-04-27T04:27:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T11:27:45","slug":"facts-about-millipedes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/?page_id=472","title":{"rendered":"Facts about millipedes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"http:\/\/jdmyeepa.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/millipede3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>no species of millipede has more than 750 legs<\/li>\n<li>how do you count the legs on a millipede? Ignore the first four trunk segments then count the others and multiply by 2.<\/li>\n<li>millipedes&#8217; \u00a0bodies are nearly circular<\/li>\n<li>the millipede with the most legs was found in 1926<\/li>\n<li>Three villages in north-west Scotland had to impose a wartime-style &#8220;blackout&#8221; in 2008 to help repel an invasion force of\u00a0\u00a0thousands of inch-long black millipedes attracted by light,.<\/li>\n<li>When a millipede feels that it is in danger it curls up into a spiral<\/li>\n<li>some species of millipede release a disgusting smelling liquid to deter predators<\/li>\n<li>The female millipede can lay up to 1,000 eggs at once although the number is usually closer to 500.<\/li>\n<li>When baby millipedes hatch they only have 3 pairs of legs. Each time they molt they develop more body segments and legs.<\/li>\n<li>the longest millipede\u00a0on record was 15 inches in length<\/li>\n<li>male millipedes transfer sperm to the female by means of \u00a0modified legs called\u00a0gonopods<\/li>\n<li>Some species emit hydrogen cyanide gas through microscopic pores along the sides of their bodies as a secondary defence.<\/li>\n<li>The millipede is the oldest myriapod in the fossil record, and possibly the oldest known terrestrial oxygen-breathing organism.<\/li>\n<li>The oldest known millipede fossil species is Pneumodesmus newmani from the mid Silurian dating to about 425 million years ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>no species of millipede has more than 750 legs how do you count the legs on a millipede? Ignore the first four trunk segments then count the others and multiply by 2. millipedes&#8217; \u00a0bodies are nearly circular the millipede with the most legs was found in 1926 Three villages in north-west Scotland had to impose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":39,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/472"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/472\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}