Ochre snake millipede
Proteroiulus fuscus
Eats: Leftovers and dead thingsCentipedes and millipedesGardens and meadowsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The ochre snake millipede is a very thin, very small millipede. It is long and round like a tiny piece of string, with lots and lots of short legs. It lives almost everywhere in Europe.
Fun fact: this one is not an insect. Insects have six legs, and this cousin has many, many more.
Lives in
Almost all of Europe
Length
0.7 to 1.5 cm (0.26 to 0.59 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other millipedes, it eats dead leaves and other rotting plant bits.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2.5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 30 seconds
How big is Ochre snake millipede compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Ochre snake millipede about 0.12 km/h (0.07 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Females are bigger than males and can grow to about 15 millimetres.
2
It is less than 1 millimetre wide, thinner than a strand of spaghetti.
3
Along its sides it has dark spots that are glands for making a smelly liquid to put off enemies.
4
It is found in nearly every country in Europe.
you asked
Most asked questions about Ochre snake millipede
?Is the ochre snake millipede dangerous?
No. It is a tiny harmless millipede.
?How big is the ochre snake millipede?
About 6.5 to 15 millimetres long and less than 1 millimetre wide.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Proteroiulus fuscus
- Group
- Centipedes and millipedes
- Family
- Blaniulidae
- Classification
- Diplopoda > Julida > Blaniulidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Proteroiulus fuscus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Sanja565658. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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