General Millipede information:

Their diet consists of damp and decaying wood and plant materials. They may invade the house during extremely wet seasons.

Millipedes are oval, 1-1/2 inches long, segmented with many legs, coiling up when resting or dead.

Every millipede has two pairs of legs attached to each apparent body segment.

Most millipedes are brown or black, but some species are orange or red.

Millipedes are found outdoors in situations where there is moisture and decaying organic matter, such as under trash, grass clippings, mulch, rotting firewood, leaf litter, etc.

Their diet consists of damp and decaying wood and plant materials. They scavenge feeding on decaying organic matter.

They invade the house during extremely wet seasons or extreme drought.

Millipedes are active at night.

Recommended Measures of Control of Millipedes:

Millipede control begins outdoors by removing harbor aging places that hold moisture, such as wood debris, rocks, grass clippings, and leaf litter.

Firewood should be stored off the ground.

Lawns should be watered in the morning to promote drying by the afternoon.

Flower beds should not be over mulched.

Large numbers of these structure-invading pests are easily controlled by vacuuming and discarding the collected material.

A good residual sprayed along entry pts., cracks and crevices, baseboards is important. Even more important would be a good residual sprayed on the outside ,in particular on the exterior walls that they are entering the home.

Bifen It or Talstar One Liquid Residual Insecticides or CYPER WP work well, sprayed 3 feet out, along the foundation and 3 ft. up the exterior wall as well as sprayed around the entry pts, like doors and windows.

Repeat treatments of these suggested liquid residual insecticides every 3 months

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You may also use an aerosol like 250 Propoxur Residual Insecticide, sprayed around doors and windows and other places where these pests may enter premises.

Repeat treatment of this aerosol once a month.

    TALSTAR ONE or BIFEN GRANULES would be an additional treatment around the house to serve as a barrier. The advantage of granule treatments in addition to liquid residual barriers is that they hold up under rainfall.

Repeat treatments of granules every 3 months