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Here's a creepy critter photo dump. These critters were found by the back porch, except the beetle, which was on our raspberry vines.
1)Yellow-spotted Millipede (Harpaphe haydeniana)
2) Beetle (Helops laetus)
3) Western Carpet moth (Melanolophia imitata)
4) Crane fly (Genus Tricyphona)
#nature #naturephotography #photography #arthropods #millipedes #beetles #craneflies #moths #insects #GooglePixel #macro #macrophotography #Lepidoptera #Coleoptera #Diptera #Diplopoda

(CW: images of an injured millipede) (Edit: added location, tags.)

A lovely, yet unfortunate spotting. A giant millipede (family Harpagophoridae) spotted on the Sime Track in the Central Catchment Nature Reserve, Singapore, on 16 Dec 2023. It had suffered an injury. Eventually, it started moving, and I stayed with it, keeping other people moving on the path away from it, until it went into the forest.

On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/1 ]