Question: What do millipedes eat?

[RenE J.V. Bertin]

blyons at brandon.simplot.com (Blair Lyons) wrote:
>I recently captured a millipede and would like to try to keep and 
>observe him over the winter.
    ^    That's very simple: usually they sleep...
>
>Could someone tell me what I can feed him?
>
Bits of (decaying) organic compounds, I presume, given their usual
occurence here amidst fallen leaves etc.

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