Traveling cherry millipede
The traveling cherry millipede is a flat-backed millipede with lots of little legs. Sometimes thousands of them gather together and march off in the same direction, like a tiny parade. That is how it got its traveling name.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
In 1950 people found about 6,000 of these millipedes crowded together on one single bridge in Indiana.
Its colours change a lot from one millipede to the next.
It copies the look of other millipedes that live nearby, so they all seem alike to hungry animals.
No other millipede in its family lives in such a big area.
Most asked questions about Traveling cherry millipede
?Is the traveling cherry millipede dangerous?
No. It does not bite or sting. Just wash your hands if you pick one up.
?Why do these millipedes walk in groups?
Sometimes huge groups of them gather and move the same way together. That is why people call them traveling or wandering millipedes.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pleuroloma flavipes
- Group
- Centipedes and millipedes
- Family
- Xystodesmidae
- Classification
- Diplopoda > Polydesmida > Xystodesmidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Wandering cherry millipede
Where the facts come from
- Pleuroloma flavipes (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 Aggyrolemnoixytes. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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