{"id":13509,"date":"2023-07-28T12:02:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T06:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13509"},"modified":"2025-04-02T04:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T23:27:56","slug":"new-millipede-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/new-millipede-species\/","title":{"rendered":"New Millipede species"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Millipede species:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The newly found species is a <strong>thread Millipede.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is about the length of a paperclip but skinny as pencil lead.<\/li>\n<li>Its scientific name is <strong>Illacme socal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>translucent and sinuous<\/strong> like a jellyfish tentacle.<\/li>\n<li>The creature burrows four inches below ground, secretes unusual <strong>chemicals and is blind.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It relays on hornlike antennas protruding from its head to find its way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Key facts about Millipede:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>These are member of the <strong>arthropod class Diplopoda.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are cylindrical or <strong>slightly flattened invertebrates.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The word \u201cmillipede\u201d translates to <strong>\u201ca thousand feet<\/strong>\u201d\u2014but while millipedes have many feet, none of them quite have a thousand.<\/li>\n<li>Their <strong>bodies are split into a number of segments<\/strong>, and each segment has two sets of legs that attach to the body&#8217;s underside.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diet:<\/strong> It is a <strong>detritivore<\/strong>, which means that it eats dead <strong>organic matter in the earth<\/strong> like damp wood pieces, decayed leaves, and other materials that naturally exists in their moist habitat underground.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q) What is detritivore?<\/h3>\n<p>A detritivore is an organism that feeds on dead and decaying organic matter, such as dead plants, animals, and other organic debris. These organisms play a crucial role in the ecosystem by breaking down and decomposing dead material, which helps to recycle nutrients back into the environment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/science\/story\/blind-gloosy-with-486-legs-new-millipede-species-discovered-2412462-2023-07-27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Blind and gloosy with 486 legs: New millipede species discovered<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millipedes are members of the arthropod class Diplopoda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}