Spiders, ants, and ground beetles will sometimes eat younger millipedes. Adult millipedes are often eaten by badgers, hedgehogs, frogs, toads, lizards, shrews, birds, and domestic chickens. Monkey and lemurs will even squish millipedes and rub them on their skin. Millipedes' stinky odor apparently repells mosquitoes and other insects from monkeys' and lemurs' skin