This is a new species for me and I’m not completely certain of my identification ** of this as Nanogona polydesmoides, a species of millipede, also known as the Eyed flat-backed millipede. However, on the Nature Spot website it’s been given a ‘green flag’, which indicates it’s easy to identify, and its appearance agrees with their description of it having ’rounded lobes on each side of the plates along its back, each with a short spine pointing backwards’.

The location in which I found this creature also agrees with the habitat details provided on the website: ‘Typically found in wet meadows and woodland where it lives in leaf litter and under logs’; I found this one in a small area of woodland, underneath a piece of bark that had fallen off a dying tree.

** Identity confirmed by an expert from the Millipede Recording Scheme, 15 October 2026.