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These lovely coloured millipedes from Africa are commonly known as OLIVE MILLIPEDES as they are very similar to the colour of olives.  Like all millipedes these have lots of legs and this species is particularly fast moving for a millipede, probably because of their small size and low body weight.

Baby olive millipedes are very small indeed and they spend much of their time either buried in the ground or hiding beneath logs or other objects on the surface of their enclosure.  The coin used in the picture below to provide an idea of size is a standard British 1p coin, so as you can see they are really quite tiny!

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