In this week's New Scientist, an interesting interview with entomologist E.O.Wilson. The last section will be of interest to those who ever wondered what could possibly eat a polyxenid Bristly Millipede.
Read a scan of the text here.
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There are three new county atlases available for centipedes, millipedes and woodlice in Nottinghamshire. They are free to download at the following links.
http://www.eakringbirds.com/eakringbirds5/AtlasofNottinghamshireCentipedes.pdf
The first genome of a myriapod, the geophilomorph centipede Strigamia maritama, has been sequenced.
Arthropods are the most species-rich group of animals on Earth. Of the four main arthropod groups alive today, insects, crustaceans, chelicerates and myriapods, it is the latter (which includes centipedes and millipedes) for which the genome had not been sequenced.
Two (yes, TWO!) species of chourdeumatid millipede new to Britain, Ceratosphys amoena ssp. confusa (Ribaut, 1955) and Hylebainosoma nontronensis Mauriès & Kime, 1999, have been recently found outdoors in south Wales - ON THE SAME DAY!
Contents: Editorial; The Ecclesiastical Millipede Polyxenus; Gap Fillers – Woodlouse Recording Scheme; Further myriapods from an isolated island; The Spiky Yellow Woodlouse Pseudolaureola atlantica; Iridovirus in North Dulwich; Chordeuma proximum in Suffolk; More swarming millipedes; In the journals; CIM.
A one day free introductory workshop to the identification of woodlice, millipedes and centipedes. Following a presentation on the characters used to identify these groups, participants will have the chance to name their own material or specimens made available on the day from the BMIG reference collection which is housed at Dinton Pastures.
For further details, including directions, see http://www.benhs.org.uk/site/?q=node/17
