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thanks millipeter for the reply. so here in my country we have a lot of species you say, I hope you can send me a list and a few descriptions of them soon. I would love to explore and hunt for them. I am here in the island of Cebu. Not much forest is left in this island but there are a couple of places that maybe I could try to explore. yes endemism is very high in our country too bad though because not much is being done to protect our environment here. I will try to post pictures once I find m...

we call millipedes "labod" here locally, but the ones I found are only the blue/black ones. there is also another one they say that can be found here with black and yellow bands but I have not seen one yet, only in pictures. they look like this http://www.whatsthatbug.com/millipedes.html they look beautiful also.

no I'm not in Negros Occidental, I am in Cebu but I can ride a ferry and go there. my brother is living there right now. but he lives in the city. I have been to the place where you can find these millipedes. it's in the Mambukal area near Mt. Kanlaon an active volcano. you can also find 2 species of tarantula in there. I was there last year maybe this year I will go and look for this millipedes. Your millipedes look so nice and pretty. where did you bought them?

thanks for the response and info shura . So as I have learned there are 2 other species of millipedes found here in the philippines namely Variulus mindanaonus and Banosolus philippinus. which I don't know what they look like. this pedes loves to eat wet coconut husks. at first I had a hard time feeding them with vegetables but I found out they like dead wood and leaves than vegetables. I would love to have an AGB but they are not available here in our area. I will try to look for more here so t...

Hi newbie here, I need info on my millipede, got this from my frontyard. I am in the Philippines by the way and also a Filipino and I stay in an area near a small forest. the milli looks like this can anyone help me, identify what species and name it is. the pic is not the actual pic but mine has some what the same features but the milli I have is 7 inches long only eats rotten wood and leaves. Can anyone tell me how to look for more since I only found one. I like them a lot. and can anyone tell...