(1) Thousands of legs, like a giant millipede crawling across the floodplain, kick up puffs of blush-colored dust.(2) Pulmonate snails, millipedes , scorpions, spiders and mites were certainly present, but are not known from fossils.(3) These tireless toilers of the soil include such creatures as the earthworms, woodlice and millipedes .(4) I received a sample of millipedes and crane fly larvae from a seedling corn field.(5) The arthropodes, like centipedes, beetles, millipedes and worms, bring in the finishing touches to complete the composting.(6) Some arthropods, like the centipedes, millipedes , and insects, have legs with a single branch (uniramous appendages).(7) The rubbish also attracted beetles, flies, centipedes and millipedes .(8) Insects mined and bored every bit of wood and leaf, while centipedes and millipedes crawled all over.(9) The large collection includes earthworms, slugs, snails, beetles, earwigs, ants, moths, crickets, spiders, millipedes and centipedes.(10) Plant material accumulated on the pond bottom, creating anoxic conditions that favored the preservation of terrestrial arthropods such as the millipedes and arachnids.(11) They include such things as spiders, leeches, millipedes , pill bugs, flatworms, mites, beetles, and water dwellers such as water scorpions and nematode worms.(12) They are predators on spiders, mites, millipedes , and other insects.(13) In fact, when the ground is still warm from the fires, ants, wood beetles, millipedes , and centipedes are busy.(14) 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.(15) Terrestrial animal life was limited to unwinged insects like millipedes and scorpions.
