British biologist J.B.S Haldane is reported to have said that "the creator had an inordinate fondness for beetles because he had made so many different species."
Myself? I have an inordinate fondness for the arthropoda in the class Diplopoda known as millipedes. The slow-moving detritivores that eat dead leaves aiding in the decomposition of that plant material. And since I have been raking leaves off and on for weeks, I can certainly use their services.
In September, I took a yellow flat-backed millipede (Cherokia georgiana) on live TV, namely WBIR's Live@5@4 (a first for the perennial program) to talk to Russell Biven about the curious, and very necessary, little multi-legged invertebrates, plus the Big Bug Safari we were having at the nature center.
Click: Live@5@4.
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