The leg wave is mesmerizing.

I used to have a pet Ironworm Millipede, easily on of the coolest little critters from my childhood. Derek’s love for these animals is infectious, it brings a smile to my face!

Derek was my professor of an insect bio course last fall. I actually discovered Ant Lab when he played one of your videos during lecture.

Such a joy to see the excitement and love Dr. Hennen has for millipedes! Our understanding of the natural world is owed to people who took their passion for niche topics and ran with it.

The super-cut of him being excited about the collection 😂 Great episode!

I love seeing people so genuinely excited to share their passions, it's beautiful! We need more people like Dr Derek Hennen!!

Man I love Millipedes. Such chill creatures (at least the ones where I live). Spend a lot of time trying to get people not to kill them because they mistake them for Centipedes. Keep up the great content man, uploads are few but always amazing.

i love millipede the pill millipede rolled up as a ball is even adorable

Dr. Hennen has helped me identify and learn about a bunch of Millipedes that I’ve photographed…big thanks to you both for this great video.

I'm so excited about your millipede episode! My interest in millipedes is really just getting started. And I love to learn anything I can about them. Every morning at work, I'd find a millipede in the middle of the floor. I'd always pick them up and say it's your day off today and carry them back outside. That happened tons of times! I'm sure they were happy to be back outside. ☺️

it is really fascinating how appreciative some people are of species of living organisms and nature...its heart warming...the science community around nature is highly regarded by me...thank you for this material...it is truly an amazing world we live in with all the intricate organisms in an ecosystem...wonderful, how the Iron Worm has its array of brains that tells it how to move its legs...this is so cool!

❤ your channel. I nerd out to bugs.

I am 72 and been fascinated by insects my whole life! When I was growing up my father always showed me insects that he found while working in the yard or walking in the woods. When I find a spider or other insect in my house I always gently capture them and release them outside! The only insects I kill are flies and yellow jackets…..I am allergic. But when I do kill them I look for a spider outside who I can give it too. I never went to college but think that maybe I was suppose to be an entomologist! My young grandson was petrified of spiders, etc but now when he comes to my house we search for insects to collect then release when he goes home……maybe he will be the entomologist! 🪲🪰🐜🐞

I yelled out loud when I saw the iron worm on your hand "omg thats so cool!!" I should have been a biologist!

Millipedes are such chill dudes compared to centipedes, I'd hangout with a Millipede any day.

Omg Dr. Hennen was my professor for a class on insects

This is so cool! The genuinely enthusiasm and passion is so endearing!

The Ironworm has now become my favorite one of the four millipedes. It looks like an armoured train or something

I love your millipede specialist's enthusiasm and love for the animals he's studying, he's great. ☺️🙏🕊

Can you make like a ten hour video of bugs taking off r just walking with this chilling music? I can watch this for an entire day, use as bg noise and even use as reference for drawing Even if you can't do it I just want to say that I love your videos and you're getting me so into bug anatomy, is just too beautiful. Thanks a lot for the content!!!

"These ones really excite me" Me too, especially that Iron worm 👀

One of the cutest creatures on the planet

Used ti have a few millipede species as pets and i adored them. They mind their own business and stroll through leaf litter without really disturbing anyone. They dont have the fast jerky movement of a centipede but this sort of relaxed wave of legs. Just wonderful all around

Just the passion here made me cry a little

Great and you two guys are truly blessed to have such great enthusiasm and knowledge about all of this

This was a DELIGHT to watch!!! So fun to see you and Derek team up!

Incredible that worms !! It has heart, nervous system, etc…. Mesmerizing ! Good work, dr.

This is so cool to see the slow-mos juxtaposed with the field finds! Such a great approach for anyone from grade school kids (heck, any age kid) to conservation commissioners. Kudos!

Beautiful creatures, your videos are really fun to watch!

I was drawn right in by that lovely close-up of the Iron Worm in the thumbnail!

Millipedes are awesome and this video was a joy to watch

Dude these millipedes are so AWSOME!!

wonderful- you never disappoint!

I love your channel! This is great!

this is so cool man. one of my fav vids

I love how they were showcased with a nice plain background!

This is awesome~💞 Thank you for sharing this video~🤗

I love that I stumbled upon your channel

I always get excited when I find a millipede they are so kool usually in the forest

I’ve always loved millipedes.

Really enjoyed this video, I see many of these species on accident while I'm herping and now I know so much more about them! The discovery of a new species of fungus based on a Twitter photo of a millipede is mind boggling, what a crazy age of science we live in.

I love how they "gallop" such mesmerizing movement.

I think this is the nerdiest video I’ve watched in a while… kudos!

I just stumbled into this channel and immediately subbed. Had a good laugh at around 2:10 when he says "look right around the shoulders" of the millipede. I'm over here like... wut

I love to see people excited about insect like I am!! I've been considering an ant farm, but still not quite sure. I got to watch a mantis eat a wasp recently, right on my front porch! It was awesome! I was just a tad too late to watch it catch the wasp, darn it. LOL Great stuff, thank you for sharing!

Love this channel!

So so cool. It's my dream to do what Derek does

Enjoyed your video so I gave it a Thumbs Up

So awesome! I love those closeups of their dumb little faces

millipedes combine two of my favorite things, bugs and trains

This is so funny, I think I just listened to this guy on the Ologies podcast!

How come youtube is filled with nonsense drama videos when something as cool as this exists....! Thanks!

Millipedes have always been one of my favorite terrestrial invertebrates, but I always assumed the more charismatic species lived in places like sub-Saharan Africa or SE Asia, places like that. I didn't know North America had anything other than small little gray ones! (though I still love the little gray ones) I'm gonna have to check and see what species live in my area now.

Oh thank you, I've always wondered how bug legs & feet work but couldn't see them.

This is the best thing ever

👏👏👏Loved it! ❤

yo that’s the guy who identifies all my millipedes on inaturalist!!! thanks derhennen

This is so cool

Thank you so much for your amazing videos! Listen, does your museum give tours? I would love to see the insect collection!

Millipedes are so much more visually appealing than centipedes

Ironworms are ALL OVER THE PLACE down here in florida! Go out any relatively warm night that had rain any time recently or not, and youll probably see one, or 7

i love how the ironworm poops on Derek😂😂😂

I love milipedes. They are like stretched out pill bugs. So cute. I love the massive ones Look like a little train with all those tiny feet 😆

So cool!

Interesting video though I'm not wild about them. Here in Montana, I have them as a bad PEST in my garden. Every spring, I see seedlings begin to wilt and when you pull them up every root hair has been eaten off. Culprit: tiny almost microscopic centipedes. They especially seem to love the tiny dill plants. Coiled up, they could fit on the head of a pin they are so small. I'd love to send you some.... if they are a new specie, I'd love to name them.

I didn't know we could handle the poisonous ones. Cambala! Thank you

Beautiful little animal 👌

You'd get a kick of our Taiwan's millipedes. They have a balck and white segmented millipede that's is about 5 inches long about as thick as a dime. There is also another version that is black and red also similar size.

Ottimo lavoro

The guy gushing over his jars of bugs 💗 I've only seen a couple of centipedes as a child, but no millipedes. Unfortunately, both are now absent where I live due to poor ecology. I'd love to have one of these guys crawling around on my hand!

3:48 Really cool to see that guy missing a leg but still going strong like nothing's happening.

I also love the Zulu name for the (giant) millipedes native to South Africa: shongololo

Amazing ❤

cool video

That's a true nerd if i ever saw one, and That's amazing...

Absolutely beautiful. I love millipedes. I loved the video till the jars of dead millipedes.

Hi Dr. Smith, Hi everybody. I just today discovered your channel. I live in Raleigh and a few years ago I was jogging late one night and came across a swarm of dozens and dozens of millipedes. They were mostly 3 or 4 inches and resembled the Ironworm in your video. I have hoped I would see them again, but I have had no luck. Is this swarming behavior normal here in Raleigh.

Such exquisite creatures!

is it good to scrape away at rotting wood? i heard it's not a good way of looking for bugs because it disrupts the habitat of all the bugs that live there. thoughts?

One time in the garden, I saw 5 ironworms. Millipedes are so cute.

awesome

I must have about 50+ millipedes now, I have 2 species which are native here to the UK which make up 99%of my millipedes but I do also have 2 oaky smoke. I do also have some centipedes but they are also native and sadly the native 1 to the UK grows about 4cm max yet I found one that is just over 10cm. I find millipedes in my back garden along with isopods which I also have a large collection of. All of my tarantulas and scorpions came from the internet.

wow fantastico!!

Ok. You are my kind of people 😄

🤓 A jar full of jars of dead bugs! How'd you know?!? Just what I always wanted!

What's about the millipedes in vials within jars? And all filled with ethanol I suppose. Is it for extra protection? Do all specimens in a jar come from a single collection trip? BTW, I find such tranquillity in these videos, thanks!

Fascinating as the jars of specimens are, I'm mildly upset at how messy they are "organised"/thrown in there 😂

ABSOLUTELY GROTESQUE

Awesomeeeee

Are they bite? It is safe?

So cool! Honestly I’ve found millipedes intimidating but seeing some one get so excited makes me feel like they are very cool animals that have just gotten a bad rap.

How do the labels stay intact inside the vials with the liquid?

As a young boy I picked up a centipede and it bite me, I will never forget that pain.

Ugh, I can not wait for all the snow and ice to be gone and the land the thaw. I have a horn worm I collect, along with few others, I do keep them as pets in my terrariums.

Learned the black millipede has a defence mechanism the hard way. When I was a naughty kid, poured some hot water over it. It shoot something to my face and I was blind for 10 minutes!

Beautiful

Oh!

I thought the movement in milipedes was flawless until I saw this video. I can't believe it. The smoothest walk is from de Log and the worst is from the Cherry so bumbling

the way the Cherry millipede did not look red was disappointing but also, it walks funny, it walks and falls forward.

Pretty sure we got all of them in TN.