Myriapoda Ecology Mia Yockey Kyle Douglass http www

Myriapoda Ecology Mia Yockey Kyle Douglass http: //www. bobjensenphotography. com//bobjensenphotography/gallery. asp ? photo. ID=35859&cat=94785

Identifying the organism The organism is the House Centipede, it was easy to tell with the many legs it had. The shape was obviously that of a centipede, it wasn’t too difficult to figure out http: //biologybizarre. blogspot. com/2013/09 /house-centipedes-getting-to-know-my. html

Centipede (Chilopoda) Habitat • Typically live in places with high levels of moisture ( especially tropical areas) • But they can live in deserts (Giant Centipede) • They found everywhere except Antarctica http: //www. naturespot. org. uk/species/banded-centipede

Centipede Diet • Centipedes are all carnivorous, eating: insects, spiders • If large enough they can eat birds, bats, rodents and giant spiders and even other Myriapoda http: //news. bbc. co. uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/sci_nat_life_in_the_undergrow th/html/7. stm

Centipede Food web • Though centipedes are predatory organisms, they are also prey for a lot of organisms as well. http: //www. besgroup. org/ 2011/09/06/brown-shrikeimpaling-caterpillar-beforeeating-it/

Food web https: //www. pinterest. com/btnutrition 0140/soil-food-web/

Millipede (Diplopodia) Habitat • Much like centipedes, they like to live areas that are very damp and are commonly found in tropical areas http: //www. bbc. co. uk/nature/20323160

Millipede Diet • They are detritivores, eating decaying plants and feces of herbivores(some are carnivores) • They are very essential decomposes in tropical rainforests • They keep nutrients in the soil, which is vital to plants and other organisms that live in rainforests http: //aqualandpetsplus. com/Bug, %20 Millipedes%20 II. htm

Food web http: //paradise-lawn. com/the-soil-food-web-and-your-lawn/

Symphyla • The pseudo centipedes, much like the other classes, they too live in damp areas, and live in forested areas as well • They important detritivores to forests, with supplying nutrients to the soil https: //www. chaosofdelight. org/symphyla/

Pauropoda • They live around leaf litter and in damp places (like other classes). • They are detritivores and are also important decomposers for the forests and the plants in them http: //keys. lucidcentral. org/keys /v 3/TFI/start%20 key/myriap oda%20 key/Media/HTML/Pauro poda. htm l

Similarities • The waxy cuticle • The segmented body • The multiple sets of legs • Living damp areas / https: //www. chaosofdelight. org/pauropoda

Differences • Centipedes have the tail foot and are carnivorous • Millipedes, pauropods and Symphyla are all dritritivores • Some millipedes are carnivorous https: //commons. wiki media. org/wiki/File: Na rceus_americanus. jpg

Sources • https: //a-z-animals. com/animals/centipede/ • http: //www. biokids. umich. edu/critters/Diplop oda/ • http: //tolweb. org/pauropoda/2531 • https: //www. chaosofdelight. org/symphyla/