Arachnid

Arachnids are a class (Arachnida) of joint-legged invertebrate animals (arthropods), in the subphylum Chelicerata. All arachnids have eight legs, although the front pair of legs in some species has converted to a sensory function, while in other species, different appendages can grow large enough to take on the appearance of extra pairs of legs. The term is derived from the Greek word ἀράχνη (aráchnē), meaning "spider".

Almost all extant arachnids are terrestrial. However, some inhabit freshwater environments and, with the exception of the pelagic zone, marine environments as well. They comprise over 100,000 named species, including spiders, scorpions, harvestmen, ticks, mites, and solifuges.

Morphology

Almost all adult arachnids have eight legs, and arachnids may be easily distinguished from insects by this fact, since insects have six legs. However, arachnids also have two further pairs of appendages that have become adapted for feeding, defense, and sensory perception. The first pair, the chelicerae, serve in feeding and defense. The next pair of appendages, the pedipalps, have been adapted for feeding, locomotion, and/or reproductive functions. In Solifugae, the palps are quite leg-like, so that these animals appear to have ten legs. The larvae of mites and Ricinulei have only six legs; a fourth pair usually appears when they moult into nymphs. However, mites are variable: as well as eight, there are adult mites with six or even four legs.

Arachnid (film)

Arachnid is a 2001 horror film directed by Jack Sholder. In this film, giant killer spiders menace survivors of a plane crash. The film stars Alex Reid, Chris Potter, Rocqueford Allen, Robert Vicencio and José Sancho.

Plot

A plane crashes on an island, and the pilot comes across a giant spider, which kills both him and an alien. One year later, Mercer (Alex Reid), the sister of the pilot, accompanies Valentine (Chris Potter) to the same island to locate her brother. On the way to a native village to examine several natives who are dying of spider bites, ticks burrow into Reyes (Luis Lorenzo Crespo). Upon reaching the village, they discover that the village has moved on. Reyes begins to cough up the ticks and Bear (Rocqueford Allen) decides to shoot him to end his suffering.

That night, Mercer wanders off and is attacked by a mutated spider, but is saved by a native, who ends up getting bitten and dying the next morning. The group moves on, and are attacked by a giant spider, which kills Henry (an "arachnologist") and Samuel (the group's doctor). A smaller spider attacks Bear, and another native is killed. Valentine, Mercer and Susana (Neus Asensi), Samuel's assistant, hole up in a military bunker. While Mercer keeps watching, the spiders attack and force the survivors into a closet. Susana panics when she sees the spider is gone and is killed when she tries to escape. Mercer and Valentine escape through a bomb tunnel into the forest, where Valentine slips into unconsciousness from a bite he sustained.

Arachnid (disambiguation)

An arachnid is a member of a class of joint-legged invertebrate animals.

Arachnid may also refer to:

  • Arachnid Solitaire or Spider, a solitaire card game
  • Arachnid or Bugs (Starship Troopers), a member of a fictional alien race in Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
  • See also

  • Arachne (disambiguation)
  • Arachnoid (disambiguation)
  • Podcasts:

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    Arachnid

    by: Venom

    The thouht of you has plagued my years
    I see you now
    Crawling all over me
    Symptom of my darkest fears
    With me now
    Living inside of me
    In the night
    As you sleep
    the web begins to form
    Across your face to suffocate
    And kill before the dawn
    Arachnid
    Strangely drawn towards her lair
    certain death ,
    she wants to be part of you
    Lie in wait my choice of mate
    I can't resist she
    Bites and devours you
    Lift your body
    >From the ground
    Strech octapoidal limbs
    Leave the web
    Without a sound
    The fantasy begins
    Come into the parlour said the spider
    to the fly
    Not really knowing that the end is
    drawing nigh
    Making love in ecstacy,the venom she injects
    Death is swift,limbs entwined amid
    arachnid sex
    the scent you spread i know so well
    could leave me dead
    Hopelessly mesmerised
    Your bite will mean the end to me
    Can you see i'm
    Helplessly hypnotised
    Panic stricken
    Terrified
    Cocooned within the web
    Arachnophobic
    Misery
    Release me from this living nightmare
    If i stalk you must
    forgive me
    For this dance is my




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