Photo: Beautiful Assassin

Some of the loveliest of nature’s sights appear when we are least expecting them. A few days ago, I saw what at first I took to be a very large ant moving slowly across a patch of tropical broad-bladed grass. But it didn’t quite move like an ant, so I bent down to take a closer look, and behold! found this wonderful insect:

This is a so-called ‘Millipede…