Rotten Wood and Reproduction

[All About Arthropods]

Hello!
I was wondering about something, do Thai Rainbow millipedes require rotten wood in their diet for reproduction? Even though I do live near a couple forests, rotten wood is still not exactly an easily found material and I don't like the thought of purchasing wood as needed, so I wanted to know whether it was absolutely required for them before I started another breeding effort.

On the same topic, does anyone know about any millipede species besides C.spinigerus that will breed without rotten wood?

 

[kjgalaxy]

My bumblebees have been prolific without rotten wood. I only have some cork bark in there. I've mixed in fermented sawdust and small chips of wood. I periodically mix in fish pellets for the babies.

 

[All About Arthropods]

My bumblebees have been prolific without rotten wood. I only have some cork bark in there. I've mixed in fermented sawdust and small chips of wood. I periodically mix in fish pellets for the babies.

Ah, I had forgotten about them! lol I can definitely imagine that they'd do splendid without rotten wood since they even seem to do well simply in the soil of potted plants. lol

 

[LawnShrimp]

T. corrallinus Scarlet millipedes are also mainly leaf-dependent, but that's all I can think of for the US. A shame that most things larger than bumblebees don't do well without wood.

 

[All About Arthropods]

If anyone's curious, I ended up finding out that the Apeuthes sp. (Thai Rainbows) thankfully don't require rotten wood for reproduction.