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Like many folks, I never paid much attention to millipedes — those wormlike, multilegged creatures that crawl about in the leaf litter and hide under logs and rocks on the forest floor.

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Walk into the woods and you are bound to find standing dead trees, otherwise known as snags. Here's what you may not know about them.

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