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Spiders: The Change In Spider Food Chain
This film is about spiders invading a town. The spider start out by killing the animals like cow and dogs first but later towards the end, humans became the target too. The change in spider food chain is due to the active use of pesticides. When the spiders could no longer find available food supply to survive, they decided to work together and target larger living things. That is how animals and humans became their food choice too. They use webs to wrap humans up and they also inject spider venom into animals and humans, killing them. Even though they tried to kill the spiders by burning the spider hill and preventing them from coming into the town, the spiders managed to escape and that is how the film concluded with the whole town being wrapped in a giant spider cocoon.

Yes, it is biologically accurate to some extent. Biologically, spiders have eight walking legs. It also create silk from spinneret glands in their abdomen and it is used to create webs to catch prey. It is just like in the movie. The spider walk on eight legs and they wrap human up with their silk. The difference is that the movie makes people think that spider consume humans too as humans are wrap in their web while biologically, spider eat insects. Furthermore, in the movie, the spiders are able to break light bulbs and circuit box. This is
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I feel that this is portrayed accurately as fire can kill spiders. Furthermore, they also spray fire extinguisher on the spider when it enters their home. I I feel it is portrayed accurately as you can stop the spider from moving by freezing it. They also try to stop the spider from entering by sealing up all holes in their house. In the end, they are just trap in their own house as the spiders have used its silk to cover up the whole place. In a sense, it can be considered an accurate representation of spiders as spider uses its silk to make webs and trap its

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