Anyone in the Falmouth area on 30th May (Saturday): the students of the Penryn (Tremough) University Campus are organising a Bioblitz, an outdoor family event, the 4th of its kind. If interested contact Tony Barber.  The site is one from which Haplophilus souletinus is recorded.  

In this week's New Scientist, an interesting interview with entomologist E.O.Wilson. The last section will be of interest to those who ever wondered what could possibly eat a polyxenid Bristly Millipede.

Read a scan of the text here.

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There are three new county atlases available for centipedes, millipedes and woodlice in Nottinghamshire. They are free to download at the following links.

http://www.eakringbirds.com/eakringbirds5/AtlasofNottinghamshireCentipedes.pdf

The first genome of a myriapod, the geophilomorph centipede  Strigamia maritama, has been sequenced. 

Arthropods are the most species-rich group of animals on Earth. Of the four main arthropod groups alive today, insects, crustaceans, chelicerates and myriapods, it is the latter (which includes centipedes and millipedes) for which the genome had not been sequenced. 

Two (yes, TWO!) species of chourdeumatid millipede new to Britain, Ceratosphys amoena ssp. confusa (Ribaut, 1955) and Hylebainosoma nontronensis Mauriès & Kime, 1999, have been recently found outdoors in south Wales - ON THE SAME DAY!

    Annual Field Meeting and AGM The Lowport Centre, Linlithgow, West Lothian Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th April 2015