How To Use Millipede In A Sentence

  • The millipedes would have feasted on moss and early plant life that grew only a few inches off the ground.
  • Slap some librarian glasses on Ms. Dennings, and I would be forced to nuzzle and graze upon her discarded bobbysocks like a cracked up millipede, and then dance the Watusi wearing only a potato sack discarded by her great aunt Gertrude. Hot Chicks with Douchebags
  • No worries, as Millipede cant grow out of his awfullness, amateurishness, and overall aerosolishness. The spotlight begins to shine on the coalition's flaws and faultlines | Andrew Rawnsley
  • Plant material accumulated on the pond bottom, creating anoxic conditions that favored the preservation of terrestrial arthropods such as the millipedes and arachnids.
  • Millipedes were killed by disarticulation, often through decapitation, using the clypeus as a lever. Archive 2009-01-01
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  • Thousands of legs, like a giant millipede crawling across the floodplain, kick up puffs of blush-colored dust.
  • The main detritivore taxa were woodlice, millipedes, insects, and gastropods.
  • Unlike their relatively benign myriapod cousins, the millipedes, they're meat-eaters. Slate Magazine
  • As with millipedes, we close this general section by addressing the impact of chilopods on humans.
  • The arthropodes, like centipedes, beetles, millipedes and worms, bring in the finishing touches to complete the composting.
  • Yesterday, he took his Rainforest Roadshow to the school and introduced the children to tropical insects such as millipedes, tarantulas and scorpions.
  • In fact, when the ground is still warm from the fires, ants, wood beetles, millipedes, and centipedes are busy.
  • Ancestral ball-rolling behaviour shared by other canthonine species is abandoned, and the head, hind tibiae and pygidium of D. valgum are modified for novel functions during millipede predation. Archive 2009-01-01
  • If there is pathos in this, there is bathos in his apostrophe to the millipede, beginning "Poor sowbug!" and eulogizing the healing virtues of that odious little beast; of which he tells us to take "half a pound, putt 'em alive into a quart or two of wine," with saffron and other drugs, and take two ounces twice a day. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
  • These tireless toilers of the soil include such creatures as the earthworms, woodlice and millipedes.
  • Insects mined and bored every bit of wood and leaf, while centipedes and millipedes crawled all over.
  • They are predators on spiders, mites, millipedes, and other insects.
  • The rubbish also attracted beetles, flies, centipedes and millipedes.
  • In the stridulating millipede Loboglomeris pyrenaica, the male grasps one antenna and one vulva of the female with his telopods and then proceeds to stridulate until the female is receptive.
  • They include such things as spiders, leeches, millipedes, pill bugs, flatworms, mites, beetles, and water dwellers such as water scorpions and nematode worms.
  • Given the debate about the segmental composition of the thorax, it is interesting to note that there is no evidence in the earliest millipedes known that the thorax was diplopodocus.
  • From coprophagy to predation: a dung beetle that kills millipedes Archive 2009-01-01
  • In areas where acid rain is most severe, the supplementary calcium-rich foods that female songbirds depend on - snail shells, isopods such as pill bugs, millipedes, and earthworms - may be in short supply.
  • The arthropodes, like centipedes, beetles, millipedes and worms, bring in the finishing touches to complete the composting.
  • Pulmonate snails, millipedes, scorpions, spiders and mites were certainly present, but are not known from fossils.
  • The treated millipedes were then mounted between two glass microscope slides using Euparal mounting medium.
  • The discovery that terrestrial insects (Hexapoda) are more closely related to aquatic Crustacea than to the terrestrial centipedes and millipedes Naturejobs - All Jobs
  • The rubbish also attracted beetles, flies, centipedes and millipedes.
  • More problematic are the relationships of the four major groups, hexapods (including insects), crustaceans, myriapods (including centipedes and millipedes), and chelicerates (including spiders).
  • She's seen, caught, smelt and tasted millipedes before.
  • Terrestrial animal life was limited to unwinged insects like millipedes and scorpions.
  • There are nine paired microtubules per axoneme, and they are interconnected by dynein molecules, protruding at regular intervals like the legs of a millipede.
  • Overhead, a passing troop of red-faced mangabeys hooted in derision before crashing off through the canopy, while a nine-inch millipede with a body like stainless steel crawled across my hand and into the leaf litter.
  • These tireless toilers of the soil include such creatures as the earthworms, woodlice and millipedes.
  • This was very nice for a couple of miles in the company of curlews that glided across the heather rippling out their fluty songs and black millipedes that processed north across the track.
  • Sir George strode purposefully towards a grand statue of a heroic millipede raised on its hinder legs clutching a large cross in several of its limbs.
  • Insects mined and bored every bit of wood and leaf, while centipedes and millipedes crawled all over.
  • Another group of children searched the marsh grasses for millipedes, ground beetles and woodlice.
  • I received a sample of millipedes and crane fly larvae from a seedling corn field.
  • What with Millipede, Hughes and some woman from Respect, it was fairly easy pickings from the Question Time tree of stupidity last night ... Millipede on Questiontime
  • It was made of a mixture of roots of zedoary similar to ginger, lovage and peony, parsnip seeds, mistletoe, myrrh, castor oil and dried millipedes steeped in mugwort tea and brandy. Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
  • This house has a plague of small black millipedes.
  • In The Temple of Doom, Indy walks through a chamber filled with mantises, beetles, worms, millipedes, moths, slugs, snails, and puppy dog tails.
  • We still got an opossum, a red kangaroo, a Bennett wallaby, too, and millipedes, and a kookaburra, whatever that is.
  • However, until the millipede specimens described herein were discovered there was no concrete morphological evidence to support the terrestrial habitus of the oldest millipedes.
  • Millipedes were killed by disarticulation, often through decapitation, using the clypeus as a lever. Archive 2009-01-01
  • Pulmonate snails, millipedes, scorpions, spiders and mites were certainly present, but are not known from fossils.
  • A number of other invertebrate species, including beetles, harvestman, spiders, millipedes, and freshwater mussels are specialists on habitats modified by old Redwood and other conifer forests and maintain very local distributions. Northern California coastal forests
  • The large collection includes earthworms, slugs, snails, beetles, earwigs, ants, moths, crickets, spiders, millipedes and centipedes.
  • They are predators on spiders, mites, millipedes, and other insects.
  • The children were given the chance to handle giant snails, snake, frogs, tarantulas, scorpions, millipedes and cockroaches.
  • Some arthropods, like the centipedes, millipedes, and insects, have legs with a single branch (uniramous appendages).
  • Some arthropods, like the centipedes, millipedes, and insects, have legs with a single branch (uniramous appendages).

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