We have a lot of these. They are usually about 4 inches long. They love to get into the garage for some reason. They are a slow moving insect known for eating decaying plant material and on rare occasion a small insect. Their defense mechanism is to roll in a ball, hiding their underbelly and legs and/or to emit a caustic irritant to ants and other prey. Each "section" is called a "segment" and has two legs. Millipedes are known to have from 11 to over 100 segments depending on the age or type of Millipede species. The genitals are always on the third segment behind the head. Unfortunately we have stepped on a few and found that they have a dark red/black colored blood that stains whatever it lands on.
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