Ever have this happen: you take a photo of something that’s moving quickly in low-ish light and it’s super blurry, but you kinda like it anyway? That’s what happened with this millipede:
Millipede blur
No idea what kind of millipede this is, but it was pretty and I wanted a photo. This is not a clear photo by any means, but it’s my favorite of the lot anyway.
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The Dragonfly Woman 
Art!
Ha ha! Yes! Crisp photo = scientific documentation. Blurry photo = art! :)
reminds me of Apheloria virginiensis. One of the flat-backed millipedes at any rate.
I hadn’t realized there were quite so many species of similar looking millipedes in North Carolina! I thought it was going to be easy to ID, but shows what I know.
Taking it up to warp speed!
Exactly!
Looks like it is speeding right along! The blur works for this shot. Heh.
Glad you agree! Every now and again I just love a blurry shot.
Could it be this guy? Found it on http://bugguide.net/node/view/838699/bgpage
It is a Boraria stricta. I don’t know anything about them, but he is kinda pretty.
I honestly have no idea which species this is. There are FAR more species in North Carolina than I thought there were, and a whole bunch of them look quite a bit like this. Without a clearer shot (which I don’t have), I wouldn’t want to even hazard a guess!
“Catch me if you can.”
Yep! It was really moving.