• Are you a Tarantula hobbyist? If so, we invite you to join our community! Once you join you'll be able to post messages, upload pictures of your pets and enclosures and chat with other Tarantula enthusiasts. Sign up today!

cyanide

  1. cyanide orgy

    cyanide orgy

    like nearly all xystodesmidae, these require softwood in the flake stage of rot to be happy. they will graze on fungi or lichens, but their main food is rotting pine/redwood/spruce/fir wood. i should have hundreds of babies in a few months.
    • MBullock
    • Media item
    • cyanide flatback millipede polydesmida xystocheir
    • Comments: 0
    • Album: Myriopoda- Diplopoda
  2. Harpaphe haydeniana and Xystocheir dissecta

    Harpaphe haydeniana and Xystocheir dissecta

    Polydesmida are better known as 'flat-backed millipedes' infamous for secreting cyanide as a defense, often advertising such defenses with bright colors and in one genus, bioluminescence. both these species frequent the bay area in california and can be easily spotted via UV light.
    • MBullock
    • Media item
    • cyanide millipedes polydesmida
    • Comments: 0
    • Album: Myriopoda- Diplopoda
Top