I had posted pictures of millipedes in this post earlier, and some friends commented that they looked like centipedes. How would you differentiate them then? I have compiled a summary of what I know…

Characteristic	Millipede	Centipede
Antennae	Short	Long
Number of Legs	2 pairs per body segment, except first 3 segments with 1 pair each	1 pair per body segment
Movement Speed	Slow	BLOODY FAST (oops)
Bite?	Scavengers, do not bite	Predators, has modified venomous legs behind the head

#1 Melvyn found this pair of mating millipedes. The female was heavily infested with mites!

#2 Some people thought that these were centipedes. The easiest way to tell them apart, is that millipedes would have 2 pairs of legs per body segment (except first 3 segments), while centipedes have 1 pair per body segment.

#2b An old shot of a centipede highlighting the long antennae and venomous fangs

#3 James found this Theridiid with THREE termites for supper!

#4 This angle shows the 3 pointed heads of the termites

#5 Messing up the leaf litter and found this tiny spider (Theridiidae or Oonopidae?)

#6 Zodariidae

#7 Sac Spider (Clubionidae)

#8 Sometimes, I mistook them for Sparassids

#9 Top view

#10 Daddy Long Legs spider (Pholcidae) carrying her eggs and peering through a hole in a leaf

#11 Too difficult to shoot from under the leaf, so I just took all my shots through the hole

#12 Experimental back-lighting

#13 Preferred this, as it highlights the translucent legs

#14 A harvestman running around in the leaf litter

#15 Crab spider? (Thomisidae)

#16 Found this pair of male and female Wide Jawed Viciria (Viciria praemandibularis)

#17 Looks like a spider protecting her egg sac of freshly emerged spiderlings (nearby) with one of them returning to mummy

#18 Fidgeted around, but stuck to the egg sac

#19 Looks like not all spiderlings have emerged

#20 A tiny cranefly (?) got stuck in the web, and some spiderlings promptly charged over

#21 Crawled all over the prey as the cranefly slowly ceased to struggle

#22 Perhaps the spiderling did inject venom into the prey

#23 Two spiderlings climbing around

#24 Fulgoridae, lantern bug’s relative?

#25 Top view of the Fulgorid

#26 A fat looking Black-spotted Sticky Frog (Kalophrynus pleurostigma)

#27 This angle doesn’t make it look too fat. 😛

#28 Front view makes it look a little like the Malayan Horned Frog

#29 Two-tailed Spider (Hersiliidae) with a prey

#30 Last find of the night is this Black-eyed Litter Frog (Leptobrachium nigrops)

#31 The hind legs had a slight tinge of blue

#32 Looking really grumpy

#33 Very docile and stood quietly

#34 Final shot as it climbed further in preparation to leap!

The complete album can be viewed here.

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