Candy Corn Pill Millipede

Millipedes

MOQ 100 head

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8 – 13 mm body length (small, rolls into a pea-sized ball)

Non-venomous. A pill millipede (Glomerida) — unlike flat-backed millipedes it does not make cyanide; instead it secretes bitter quinazolinone alkaloids (glomerin/homoglomerin) and rolls into a tight ball for defence. Harmless to handle, though the secretion is bitter.

Leaf litter and damp forest floor of evergreen forest from southern Myanmar through Thailand to northern Malaysia. Shelters in litter, moss and under logs. 0 – 1,200 m.

Detritivore — decaying leaf litter, rotting wood and fungi. Tiny nocturnal recycler.

22 – 27 °C ambient — 21 °C cool end

80 – 90 %. Keep substrate and leaf litter consistently moist; pill millipedes are sensitive to drying.

None required (nocturnal).

Decaying hardwood leaf litter (especially well-rotted oak/beech) and white-rotted wood; supplement with cuttlebone calcium. Slow-growing.

Terrestrial; 5 – 8 cm of moist, rich leaf-litter substrate with limestone/cuttlebone and deep litter cover. Communal. Min 18 × 18 cm.

Very docile; rolls into a tight protective ball when disturbed. Safe to handle gently.