A desert millipede in New Mexico. I rarely saw these when I was growing up, but now they're common in the White Rock Canyon area of Los Alamos County. Curiously, this species was kept as pets in Europe awhile back. They're harmless to humans (though they'll munch on your fingers) and I find them endearing.
Back in New Mexico for a couple weeks. Here's a nursing bighorn sheep, a rufous hummingbird, a sphinx moth gathering nectar, and a still life with Big Milly the millipede, named to contrast with a beetle my kid called Little Billy a couple weeks ago.
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A brown, tubular millipede with dozens of legs outstretched waves its head in the air after climbing up a flower in a jar
A large, plump moth hovers and extends its long proboscis into purple flowers for nectar
A rusty-tinged hummingbird hovers with a brilliant bronze throat patch of iridescent feathers
A young bighorn sheep stooped low on his front knees nurses