Silver Forest Millipede

The Silver Forest Millipede was concepted and sprited by TCA. It was released July 4th, 2011.

It can be found in the Forests of Zeima and P1.

Breed ID: Long insect

Sprites and Descriptions
(Regular on top, polytype below.)

Alpha: It's a dark green egg. The odd bands on it gleam silver.

Beta: A cute baby millipede hatched from the egg you found. It sure has a lot of legs.

Delta: The millipede's color has become a deep green, and the joints in its shell now shine silver.

Omega: Silver Forest Millipedes are gentle creatures. If picked up, they coil up into a tight spiral until they feel safe. They can grow as long as a person's forearm, and eat decaying leaf litter on the forest floor. The shiny silver parts of their exoskeletons serve to warn predators of their horribly bitter taste, much as a bee's yellow stripes warn of its sting.

These millipedes DID evolve from millipedes brought from Earth. There were few insect-type decomposers in the forests, and they settled in, both becoming numerous and becoming prey for anything that could stand their bitter flavor. While some Earth millipedes are toxic, these are not. They are not harmful to eat, even though they taste bad, and the youngest hatchlings whose exoskeletons have not yet darkened to forest-green lack even the protective bitterness.