Evidence of fungal feeding in Brachycybe lecontii. A. Millipedes with unidentified fungus from Issaqueena Falls, Oconee County, South Carolina; B. Same after 15 minutes with evidence of fungal feeding from a pit (feeding bowl) in the surface of the fungus (inset, magnified view); C. Feeding bowl, arrow and impression of the anterior section of the millipede trunk (impression outlined in black dotted line, inset); D. Magnified view of A, showing two millipedes with their heads immersed in gelatinous fungal tissue, arrows and curved dotted lines showing fungus that is bulging out of the feeding bowl; E. Several feeding bowls in fungus, arrows; F. Millipedes with feeding bowl, arrow, in fungus from Montgomery Bell State Park, Dickson County, Tennessee (feeding bowl impression, inset).

 
  Part of: Wong VL, Hennen DA, Macias AM, Brewer MS, Kasson MT, Marek P (2020) Natural history of the social millipede Brachycybe lecontii Wood, 1864. Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e50770. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e50770