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2 big black spiders???????

posted 11 years ago by hornyheather100
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1 South American Spider came back in Manlys coffin, but there were 2 in the barn and at the end were he electrocutes that one before he comes up against the general, where the hell did that one come from????

[–] ShadowGenerations 11 years ago

That was the queen the general spider created to mate with in order to produce fertile offspring.

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[–] hornyheather100 11 years ago

how the hell did he create her???

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[–] ShadowGenerations 11 years ago

That's one thing the movie didn't explain in detail. I'm guessing he must've somehow mutated the original house spider he first mated with.

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[–] jimminysnickety 10 years ago

The original egg sac was disproportional in size if I can think back. the smaller spiders from the barn were just as deadly as the general more or less. the queen spider took up more of the egg sac and hatched nearly full size.

the spiders had an accelerated life cycle like the professor said in the morgue. they hatched already matured like the queen spider.

[–] mojo2004 9 years ago

That's one thing the movie didn't explain in detail. I'm guessing he must've somehow mutated the original house spider he first mated with.

You don't have to guess. Atherton's says exactly that in the scene when he tells them the Venezuelan spider has mated with a local spider and produced one queen and a bunch of drones. But when it general mates with the queen it will produce a generation of spiders with multiple queens who can produce enough offspring to kill off town after town after town.

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[–] lorddeseiz 9 years ago

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[–] jloper 10 years ago

The male was a South American bird eating spider (scientific name Theraphosa blondi), specimens of which can weigh over 1/3rd of a pound and have a legspan of 11 inches; the female was a tarantula of a species not as big as the bird eating spider but still pretty big.

[–] Duke_NukeAss 10 years ago

It actually does explain this, though briefly. The General mates with a indigenous spider and her first egg sac produced a Queen but because of the mixed breeding the other offspring had a short lifespan. The reason they were in such a hurry to destroy the best was because that sac was producing new pure breeds with the potential for more Kings and Queens. The specialist says this in one line and you have to pay close attention to it in order to figure out what he's explaining. But it's the conversation that ends with "and when that happens, this town is dead."

[–] RoadSideAssistance 9 years ago

General mated with a generic house spider which produced a queen and all the drones. The drones died quickly because it was a separate breed. However, when the male mated with the queen (who grew huge) that was going to produce a new strain which would be more deadly than the first and likely not have the accelerated death span. Those new spiders would have reproductive organs (theoretically) "and when that happens this town is dead, and the next one, and the next one, and the next one and so on!"

[–] newdaddy-1 9 years ago

I missed that too. I thought that was the house spider. I didn't know she produced a queen, that makes way more sense. Thank you.