Multicolored Centipede (aka Common Desert or Sonoran Centipede)

Note the front pair of legs which are darkened and modified, forming poisonous claws. Behind them are  21 pairs of walking legs. These centipedes, like all centipedes, are carnivorous. They can reach 7″ in length.

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Millipede

Millipedes (class Diplopoda) are generally dark, though they may be red, yellow or pink. Unlike centipedes, these mild mannered arthropods have short antennae and what appear to be two pairs of short legs per segment. Turning the specimen over reveals that what appears to be a single segment dorsally is actually a pair of segments, [...]

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