#p. floria

[adragonsoulants]

Some buggy photos

Millipedes enjoying a cucumber. Can see a little baby trying to get some too.

Some crude photos of the P. Floria, just enamored by their shine. They're also quite skilled at climbing smooth plastic (for an isopod that is). Also looks like a couple of them are gravid too.

I got to see one of their sheds a couple days ago and it was so cool looking!

[adragonsoulants]

Update to last night's post. Did some more research on the unidentified isopod and the reddit post was actually correct on their ID (Google was just giving me bad results) , they are Cylisticus convexus. Again the orange uropods does not appear to be something entirely typical with this species.

Odd how both of these very different species have orange uropods, wonder if it's something in the environment causing it like high iron? Or all the pine needles?

Same pics again cuz why not

Both the ones I cought yesterday appear to be doing well. The P. Floria was out chilling on some bark I put in there.

Planning to set up some isopod potato traps later today in that area to see what all more can be found, hopefully some more P. Floria so I can set up a viable colony of them.

[adragonsoulants]

I think I'm going to end up building a little terrarium set up for my P. Floria isopods. They are SO pretty and are fairly active on the surface and also appear to want to climb up high. I'll probably give them part of an egg carton for now.

Funny enough I see them around the houses foundation a lot similarly to the wild P. Spinicornis, so maybe I'll try to model parts of the terrarium after that 🤔 maybe even break up some bricks and use them as the tank backing

I still have to set up my co-hab millipede tank but that's going to take some more research and a bit of remodeling in my room 💀

[adragonsoulants]

Somehow found two more P. Floria s last night just hanging out by the garage! Wasn't ever expecting to see them there l! Well one of them for sure is a P. Floria, the other one didn't have the colors but did have the right body shape and antenna pattern. The one that looked the part also had the orange uropods like the first one I found!

Of course the one time I don't bring a little container with me outside was the one time I really needed one as one of my cats escaped and I was left with one hand to try and catch her and hold the flashlight as I was holding the isopods in the other hand 😭

Managed to catch her and bring her back inside tho!