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Millipedes from Japan keep a clear timetable – The Naked Scientists
These Japanese millipedes join cicadas as the only other arthropods with a multi-year life cycle…
Sometimes trains are unreliable – but at least the trains where you live probably arent delayed by millipedes on the line…
Researchers from Japan and the USA have shown that so-called train millipedes have an amazing – and disruptive – eight-year cycle of emergence, similar to the bewilderingly large 13- and 17-year swarms of periodical cicadas in North America.
Reporting in Royal Society Open Science, Keiko Niijima and colleagues confirm the existence of this eight-year life cycle, and provide…
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