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As temperatures rise during the summer, most North Carolina residents tend to stay inside air-conditioned spaces. Unfortunately, so do critters. Among those creepy crawlers are centipedes, millipedes ...

Millipedes come in one basic shape but many sizes. When they aren’t curled into a tight ball, millipedes are easily recognizable thanks to their long, cylindrical bodies and dozens, sometimes hundreds ...

Most millipedes defend themselves by curling into a ball, but one found in a Virginia national park secretes toxic cyanide compounds to ward off predators NPS Photos/Marie Pinto More stories about ...

BLACKSBURG, Va.— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to issue an initial finding on whether to protect the Ellett Valley millipede under the ...