As a former realtor, general contractor and greenhouse operator, Kristi has touched nearly all aspects of homeownership, from the foundation up. Today, Kristi is a full-time investing and real estate ...

More stories about creepy-crawly (or buzzing) pests and what to do about them. You might have noticed: Millipedes are moving indoors again. That explains the unwelcome sightings in living rooms, ...

A plan to eliminate rats on Alcatraz, home to the famous old prison in San Francisco Bay, led to the discovery of an unfamiliar glowing creature never before seen on the island. In early 2012, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. After much anticipation, we now know exactly how millipedes have ...

Scientists have a pretty good handle on how the birds and the bees work, but it comes to mating, almost all millipedes have been a mystery -- until now. For the first time, researchers have puzzled ...

Greek mythology tells us that not long after a young and incautious Persephone was first taken into the underworld by Hades, she made a gaffe of epic proportions by sampling the cuisine. Down in the ...

Last week the International Journal of Myriapodology published the first population genetic study of cave millipedes. This research highlights an important challenge in the conservation of cave ...

Last week we talked about centipedes. This week we will discuss millipedes. Millipedes are long, slow-moving, worm-like animals with many body segments. There are two pairs of legs on most body ...

They have many more legs than any arthropod should need, but millipedes and centipedes are different in almost every other way. From their names, it might seem like the main difference between ...

Madagascar's red-fronted lemurs may have a secret weapon from nature's medicine cabinet: millipedes. Biologists believe that lemurs chew on millipedes to treat and prevent conditions such as itching ...

Like many folks, I never paid much attention to millipedes — those wormlike, multilegged creatures that crawl about in the leaf litter and hide under logs and rocks on the forest floor. But now, I ...

There”s gold in the Bohart Museum of Entomology on the UC Davis campus, but this gold isn”t what you”d expect it to be. It”s inexpensive, holdable, and very much alive. The gold? Texas Gold-Banded ...