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Ants & Millipede

Photo by RobThacker
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Field Notes

Description:

Black ants just over 2 mm, millipede around 20 mm.

Habitat:

Garden in Chiang Mai

Notes:

First spotted this at 11 am, it took the ants just over 4 hours to drag the millipede underground, a distance of just half a meter. The millipede kept rolling into a ball and would after a few minutes try to escape.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
ChunXingWong
Possibly an introduced Anoplodesmus saussurii

Spotted for Missions

Mission
Biodiversity of Thailand
Photographed
PublishedApril 21, 2014

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