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{{Quote|Mosquito nets here are useless - better to use barb wire and sentries|Unknown, Fall expedition to [[Skull Island]], 1936 (''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island]]'')}} | {{Quote|Mosquito nets here are useless - better to use barb wire and sentries|Unknown, Fall expedition to [[Skull Island]], 1936 (''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island]]'')}} | ||
The following is a list of ''' | The following is a list of '''arthropods living on [[Skull Island]]''' across the various continuities and stories featuring [[King Kong]]. | ||
Press <code>Ctrl+F</code> on Windows or <code>Cmd+F</code> on Mac to look for a specific monster. | Press <code>Ctrl+F</code> on Windows or <code>Cmd+F</code> on Mac to look for a specific monster. | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>[[Great Spider]]</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>[[Great Spider]]</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Peter Jackson Great Spider.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Peter Jackson Great Spider.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | [[King Kong (1932 novelization)|''King Kong'' (1932)]],<br>"[[The Lost Spider Pit Sequence]]" | ! style="text-align:center" | [[King Kong (1932 novelization)|''King Kong'' (1932)]],<br>"[[The Lost Spider Pit Sequence]]" (2005) | ||
| {{Main|Great Spider}}<br>While scrapped from the [[King Kong (1933 film)|film version]], the 1932 novelization of ''King Kong'' featured a species of keg- | | {{Main|Great Spider}}<br>While scrapped from the [[King Kong (1933 film)|film version]], the 1932 novelization of ''King Kong'' featured a species of keg-shaped spiders that lived in a slimy chasm. They swarmed around prey that fell into their domain. In the 1991 comic adaptation, they spun a web across the pit's bottom to help in landing meals. | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>[[Octopus-Insect]]</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>[[Octopus-Insect]]</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Octopus Insect.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Octopus Insect.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | [[King Kong (1932 novelization)|''King Kong'' (1932)]],<br>"[[The Lost Spider Pit Sequence]]" | ! style="text-align:center" | [[King Kong (1932 novelization)|''King Kong'' (1932)]],<br>"[[The Lost Spider Pit Sequence]]" (2005) | ||
| {{Main|Octopus-Insect}}<br>A species of insect with octopus-like arms inhabited the Skull Island chasm in the 1932 novelization. They were also scrapped from the film. | | {{Main|Octopus-Insect}}<br>A species of insect with octopus-like arms inhabited the Skull Island chasm in the 1932 novelization. They were also scrapped from the film. | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Crab creature</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Crab creature</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Angry crab.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Angry crab.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | "[[The Lost Spider Pit Sequence]]" ( | ! style="text-align:center" | "[[The Lost Spider Pit Sequence]]" (2005) | ||
| A creature somewhere between a crab and a spider was intended to appear in [[King Kong (1933 film)|the original film]], but the sequence in which they appeared was cut and has since been lost to time. However, one appeared in [[Peter Jackson]]'s recreation of the scene, in which it attacked and ate one of the ''[[Venture]]'' | | A creature somewhere between a crab and a spider was intended to appear in [[King Kong (1933 film)|the original film]], but the sequence in which they appeared was cut and has since been lost to time. However, one appeared in [[Peter Jackson]]'s recreation of the scene, in which it attacked and ate one of the crew members of the ''[[Venture]]''. | ||
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==[[Universal Pictures|Universal]]== | ==[[Universal Pictures|Universal]]== | ||
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| [[File:SI Termite.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:SI Termite.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Skull Island | | The Skull Island Termites were divided into three castes. The winged caste left the mound to breed, and the two soldier castes protected it. The spade-shaped variety had powerful jaws, and the narrow-headed variety could spit noxious chemicals to ward away attackers. The termites were known to make enormous termite mounds that could rival the island's dinosaurs in size. Some dinosaurs like ''[[Ferrucutus]]'' used the termites to combat dermal parasites by brushing up on the mounds and allowing the termites to kill anything unwelcome, while its own hide kept the dinosaur from harm.{{sfn|Falconer|Weta Workshop|2005|pp=58-59}} Their larvae were a favorite source of protein for ''[[Skull Island reptiles#Calcarisaurus|Calcarisaurus]]''.{{sfn|Falconer|Weta Workshop|2005|p=61}} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Scissor-Beetle</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Scissor-Beetle</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Scissor beetle.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Scissor beetle.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Scissor-Beetles were blood-seeking flightless carrion insects that used grasshopper-like legs to hop | | Scissor-Beetles were blood-seeking flightless carrion-eating insects that used grasshopper-like legs to hop onto prey, where they used their blade-like mandibles to cut off chunks of meat.<ref name="WoK p70">{{harvnb|Falconer|Weta Workshop|2005|p=70}}</ref> | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Maggotfly</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Maggotfly</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Maggotfly.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Maggotfly.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Maggotflies were hairy, flying bugs that dropped their young on rotting carcasses, while feeding off the maggots left by other | | Maggotflies were hairy, flying bugs that dropped their young on rotting carcasses, while feeding off the maggots left by other flies. If the adult Maggotfly was unable to deposit their young within the first few hours after their hatching, they would eat their parent, on which they rode.{{R|WoK p70}} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Meat Weevil</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Meat Weevil</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Meat Weevil.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Meat Weevil.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Meat Weevils were a species that laid eggs in carcasses that were so resilient that they survived being eaten by carrion feeders that hatched and emerged from the respective animal's dung. | | Meat Weevils were a species that laid eggs in carcasses that were so resilient that they survived being eaten by carrion feeders that hatched and emerged from the respective animal's dung.{{R|WoK p70}} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Carrion Centipede</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Carrion Centipede</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Carrion Centipede.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Carrion Centipede.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Carrion Centipedes were carrion feeders that would remove meat from a carcass and bury it. | | Carrion Centipedes were carrion feeders that would remove meat from a carcass and bury it.{{R|WoK p70}} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Ornate Carrion Beetle</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Ornate Carrion Beetle</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Ornate carrion beetle.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Ornate carrion beetle.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Ornate Carrion Beetles, in order to stake their claims at the rare and highly demanded unattended kills of Skull Island, evolved to smell carrion from miles around, and emit noxious chemicals from their brightly colored shells to deter other carrion | | Ornate Carrion Beetles, in order to stake their claims at the rare and highly demanded unattended kills of Skull Island, evolved to smell carrion from miles around, and emit noxious chemicals from their brightly colored shells to deter other carrion feeders. The swarms of beetles could then stake an exclusive claim to the carcass.{{sfn|Falconer|Weta Workshop|2005|p=71}} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Nigracassida</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Nigracassida''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Nigracassida.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Nigracassida.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Nigracassida dung beetles grew to three or four inches in length and specialized in harvesting the more than plentiful deposits of excrement on Skull Island and burying them for later consumption. They were preyed on by [[Skull Island reptiles|White | | ''Nigracassida'' dung beetles grew to three or four inches in length and specialized in harvesting the more than plentiful deposits of excrement on Skull Island and burying them for later consumption. They were preyed on by [[Skull Island reptiles|White Wedgehead]]s, a species of lizard that had evolved specifically to eat them.{{sfn|Falconer|Weta Workshop|2005|p=72}} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Moonspider</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>[[Moonspider]]</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Moonspider.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Moonspider.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Moonspiders, a variety of the | | Moonspiders, a variety of the 10-legged Sunspiders, hunted at night to avoid being preyed upon by larger organisms. Their powerful jaws and paralytic venom made short work of the rodents, lizards, birds, and dinosaur chicks it fed on. Moonspiders adapted to pick up the scent of egg matter in the night, cluing the Moonspider in that a nest was hatching. The Moonspider then located the nest and would eat the hatchling dinosaurs.{{sfn|Falconer|Weta Workshop|2005|p=80}} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Estrivermus</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Estrivermus''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Estrivimus.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Estrivimus.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Estrivermis were swamp-dwelling | | ''Estrivermis'' were swamp-dwelling 15- to 20-inch parasites that used their sharp, pointed mouths to burrow into blood vessels and attach themselves. The ''Estrivermis'' would then attach themselves and feed from the blood vessel for the rest of its life, with its tail still hanging outside, spewing excrement and eggs into the swamp waters.<ref name="WoK p91">{{harvnb|Falconer|Weta Workshop|2005|p=91}}</ref> | ||
;Gallery | ;Gallery | ||
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<gallery widths='120' position='center' captionalign='center' spacing='small'> | <gallery widths='120' position='center' captionalign='center' spacing='small'> | ||
Esttrivermus eat.png|A diagram of Estrivermis feeding | Esttrivermus eat.png|A diagram of ''Estrivermis'' feeding | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
}} | }} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Profanus</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Profanus''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Profanus.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Profanus.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Profanus were | | ''Profanus'' were 20- to 30-inch-long free-swimming tapeworms that burrowed through the skin of its prey to expose the flesh and deposit its eggs into the wound. The ''Profanus'' larvae then hatched and lived in the wound until they swam away to breed.{{R|WoK p91}} | ||
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<gallery widths='120' position='center' captionalign='center' spacing='small'> | <gallery widths='120' position='center' captionalign='center' spacing='small'> | ||
Profanus eat.png|A diagram of Profanus feeding | Profanus eat.png|A diagram of ''Profanus'' feeding | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
}} | }} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Contereobestiolla</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Contereobestiolla''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Contereobestiolla.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Contereobestiolla.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Contereobestiolla lived as larvae in still freshwater until they were ingested by a fish. They then attached themselves to the fish's | | ''Contereobestiolla'' lived as larvae in still freshwater until they were ingested by a fish. They then attached themselves to the fish's insides, pupated and lived in the gut as fully grown one- to three-inch arthropods that fed on swallowed food, and slowly multiplied inside the fish until they took over its entire digestive system.{{R|WoK p91}} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Nepalacus</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Nepalacus''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Nepalacus.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Nepalacus.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Nepalacus were aquatic neopedes, | | ''Nepalacus'' were aquatic neopedes, Skull Island descendants of centipedes, that could grow to anywhere from eight to 16 inches in length. They had webbed legs, making them agile swimmers, and there were many species with varying ranges of leg lengths and webbing patterns.{{sfn|Falconer|Weta Workshop|2005|p=94}} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Aspiscimex</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Aspiscimex''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Aspicimex.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Aspicimex.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Aspiscimex were predatory neopedes with soft, flexible bodies that lived in Skull Island's swampland. Their hind-most legs were replaced by a flat tail, and their jaws were sharp and powerful, allowing them to prey on small fish. They grew up to | | ''Aspiscimex'' were predatory neopedes with soft, flexible bodies that lived in Skull Island's swampland. Their hind-most legs were replaced by a flat tail, and their jaws were sharp and powerful, allowing them to prey on small fish. They grew up to 18 to 23 inches in length.<ref name="WoK p95">{{harvnb|Falconer|Weta Workshop|2005|p=95}}</ref> | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Hydruscimex</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Hydruscimex''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Hydruscimex.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Hydruscimex.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Hydruscimex were the largest neopede at lengths ranging from nine to | | ''Hydruscimex'' were the largest neopede at lengths ranging from nine to 12 feet. Its poison was not the most potent of the neopedes, but its size alone allowed it to inject lethal doses strong enough to down small dinosaurs.{{R|WoK p95}} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Mortifillex</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Mortifillex''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Mortifillex.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Mortifillex.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Mortifillex were three to four foot long aquatic bugs that used a hook-like lure to attract prey, and specially adapted mandible-like arms to inject nerve poison. | | ''Mortifillex'' were three- to four-foot-long aquatic bugs that used a hook-like lure to attract prey, and specially adapted mandible-like arms to inject nerve poison.{{R|WoK p95}} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>[[Scorpio-pede]]</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>[[Scorpio-pede]]</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Scorpio-pede.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Scorpio-pede.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[King Kong (2005 film)|King Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | • ''[[King Kong (2005 film)|King Kong]]''<br> • ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| {{Main|Scorpio-pede}}<br>Scorpio- | | {{Main|Scorpio-pede}}<br>Scorpio-pedes were neopedes that lived in Skull Island's swamps. As larvae they were fully aquatic predators, but as adults they lived near the water and harvested algae from the rocks and trees.{{sfn|Falconer|Weta Workshop|2005|p=96}} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Predatory Pond Skaters</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Predatory Pond Skaters</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:SI Pond skaters.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:SI Pond skaters.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Predatory Pond Skaters were insects that skimmed the surface of Skull Island's still waters that sucked fluid out of their unsuspecting victims after locating them by homing in on the ripples they created on the water's surface. | | Predatory Pond Skaters were insects that skimmed the surface of Skull Island's still waters that sucked fluid out of their unsuspecting victims after locating them by homing in on the ripples they created on the water's surface.{{sfn|Falconer|Weta Workshop|2005|p=100}} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Mortaspis</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Mortaspis''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Mortaspis.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Mortaspis.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Mortaspis were black and yellow relatives of the mosquito | | ''Mortaspis'' were black and yellow relatives of the mosquito that sucked blood in Skull Island's swamps.<ref name="WoK p101">{{harvnb|Falconer|Weta Workshop|2005|p=101}}</ref> | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Spinaculex</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Spinaculex''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Spinaculex.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Spinaculex.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | • ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]''<br> • ''[[Journey to Skull Island]]'' | ||
| Spinaculex were two-inch-long, red, | | ''Spinaculex'' were two-inch-long, red, spiny mosquitoes that had bulbous thoraxes that could expand to accommodate the blood they sucked. The constant drone of their wings was a constant annoyance to the young ''[[Ligocristus]]'' that lived in the swamps.{{R|WoK p101}} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Megapede horridus</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Megapede horridus''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Megapede horridus.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Megapede horridus.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Megapede horridus were three to four foot long centipedes that used their strong legs to grab their prey from the jungle floors before injecting their venom.<ref name=" | | ''Megapede horridus'' were three- to four-foot-long centipedes that used their strong legs to grab their prey from the jungle floors before injecting their venom.<ref name="WoK p159">{{harvnb|Falconer|Weta Workshop|2005|p=159}}</ref> | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Gyas</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Gyas''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Gyas.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Gyas.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Gyas were | | ''Gyas'' were 20- to 30-inch-long centipedes that specialized in cracking eggshells from ground-nesting birds with their huge, scissor-like mandibles before drinking the escaping fluid.{{R|WoK p159}} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Megapede dereponecis</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Megapede dereponecis''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Dereponecis.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Dereponecis.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | • ''[[King Kong (2005 film)|King Kong]]''<br> • ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]''<br> • ''[[Kong's Kingdom]]''<br> • ''[[Journey to Skull Island]]'' | ||
| Megapede dereponecis were three to five foot long centipedes, and were the largest to have ever lived. Because of this, they were too heavy to climb trees, and thus they hunted in their roots for hatchling dinosaurs which they immobilized with their venom. Females chewed tunnels into rotting logs and laid their eggs inside them. They then grew extremely territorial of the log and attacked anything that may have threatened their young. | | ''Megapede dereponecis'' were three- to five-foot-long centipedes, and were the largest centipede species to have ever lived. Because of this, they were too heavy to climb trees, and thus they hunted in their roots for hatchling dinosaurs which they immobilized with their venom. Females chewed tunnels into rotting logs and laid their eggs inside them. They then grew extremely territorial of the log and attacked anything that may have threatened their young.{{R|WoK p159}} | ||
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*''[[King Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World - Pinball Game]]'' (2006) - mobile devices [video] | |||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Megapede humus</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Megapede humus''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Humus.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Humus.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Megapede humus were | | ''Megapede humus'' were 26- to 40-inch-long centipedes that used their large sets of front legs to burrow underground and eat rats and other insects in their burrows.{{R|WoK p159}} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Stickalithus</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Stickalithus''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Stickalithus.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Stickalithus.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Stickalithus were eight to | | ''Stickalithus'' were eight- to 12-foot-long spiders that ate man-sized [[Skull Island birds and sealife|carnivorous bird]]s and dinosaurs. Being too large to spin an intricate web, ''Stickalithus'' instead used their silk to create a nursery for their young. To capture prey, it waited in the low branches and foliage to hide itself and dropped down to drain its prey, whose empty husks littered the ground beneath its roost.{{sfn|Falconer|Weta Workshop|2005|p=163}} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Wicked Weaver</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Wicked Weaver</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Wicked weaver.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Wicked weaver.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Wicked Weavers were four to six inch long spiders that spun thin webs to ensnare small birds, insects, and some flying lizards. While some prey was large enough to break free and fall to the jungle floor, the Wicked Weaver's venom quickly immobilized prey and minimized their chance of escape. | | Wicked Weavers were four- to six-inch-long spiders that spun thin webs to ensnare small birds, insects, and some flying lizards. While some prey was large enough to break free and fall to the jungle floor, the Wicked Weaver's venom quickly immobilized prey and minimized their chance of escape. | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Idolon illotus</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Idolon illotus''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Illotus.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Illotus.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Idolon illotus were slim and fast predatorial centipedes that lived in the jungle canopy and hunted for flizards. Its venom could kill prey within moments of a bite. They could grow to sizes ranging from | | ''Idolon illotus'' were slim and fast predatorial centipedes that lived in the jungle canopy and hunted for flizards. Its venom could kill prey within moments of a bite. They could grow to sizes ranging from 10 to 14 inches.{{sfn|Falconer|Weta Workshop|2005|p=169}} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Idolon venefaucus</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Idolon venefaucus''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Venefaucus.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Venefaucus.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Idolon venefaucus lived in the dense leaves and vines to ambush their prey. Their grey coloring served to camouflage their 20 to 24 inch long bodies from predators and prey. | | ''Idolon venefaucus'' lived in the dense leaves and vines to ambush their prey. Their grey coloring served to camouflage their 20- to 24-inch-long bodies from predators and prey. Only the [[Skull Island birds and sealife#Skull Island Hornbill|Skull Island Hornbill]] was immune to their particular venom and thus it was the only animal species that was able to eat them without harming itself. | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Omnimatercimex harpeforceps</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Omnimatercimex harpeforceps''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Harpeforceps.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Harpeforceps.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Omnimatercimex harpeforceps, ranging from 30 to 35 inches in length, were the largest of the tree-dwelling Skull Island centipedes. They preyed primarily on baby birds and dinosaurs. They had the unique trait of eating a hole into their meal, and lining it with their scent to warn off carrion hunters and ate their meal whole from the inside out. Baby dinosaurs could feed Omnimatercimex for weeks. | | ''Omnimatercimex harpeforceps'', ranging from 30 to 35 inches in length, were the largest of the tree-dwelling Skull Island centipedes. They preyed primarily on baby birds and dinosaurs. They had the unique trait of eating a hole into their meal, and lining it with their scent to warn off carrion hunters and ate their meal whole from the inside out. Baby dinosaurs could feed an ''Omnimatercimex'' for weeks. | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Canopy Insects</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Canopy Insects</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Canopy_bug_chart.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Canopy_bug_chart.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| The Canopy Insects of Skull Island lived in many different ways, ranging from colony dwellers | | The Canopy Insects of Skull Island lived in many different ways, ranging from colony dwellers to solitary insects that were as individually adapted as one might find in any other ecosystem; however, there is no data of most of their individual behaviors provided. | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Noxmuscus</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Celocimex''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Noxmuscus.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:BD Celocimex.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | • ''[[King Kong (2005 film)|King Kong]]''<br> • ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Noxmuscus were predators that chose to prey primarily on the Sap Snails of Skull Island, which fed, as their name suggests, on tree sap. The Noxmuscus had developed strong, flat proboscis to pry the snails from trees and to allow them to drop to the jungle floor, where they would jab it into the soft flesh and drink the snail's insides. | | While the crew of the ''[[Venture]]'' were trekking through the Skull Island jungles, they were bothered by a swarm of ''Celocimex'', which [[Lumpy]] blasted apart with his Tommy gun. | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Noxmuscus''</h5>''' | |||
| [[File:BD Backstabber Noxmuscus.png|center|150px]] | |||
! style="text-align:center" | • ''[[King Kong (2005 film)|King Kong]]''<br> • ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | |||
| ''Noxmuscus'' were predators that chose to prey primarily on the Sap Snails of Skull Island, which fed, as their name suggests, on tree sap. The ''Noxmuscus'' had developed a strong, flat proboscis to pry the snails from trees and to allow them to drop to the jungle floor, where they would jab it into the soft flesh and drink the snail's insides. | |||
While running away from Kong, [[Ann Darrow]] was stung on her shoulder by a ''Noxmuscus''. | |||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Unguasilus</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Unguasilus''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Unguasilus.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Unguasilus 2.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | • ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]''<br> • ''[[Kong's Kingdom]]''<br> • ''[[Journey to Skull Island]]''<br> • [[Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World (Meredith Books)|''Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World'' (Meredith books)]] | ||
| Unguasilus were bugs that sacrificed themselves for their young, a trait not commonly found in insects. Females laid parasitic eggs on their mate's thorax. The eggs then drained their father for nutrition through his porous exoskeleton. On hatching, the larvae slowly ate their father alive until they pupated in his dry husk and | | ''Unguasilus'' were bugs that sacrificed themselves for their young, a trait not commonly found in insects. Females laid parasitic eggs on their mate's thorax. The eggs then drained their father for nutrition through his porous exoskeleton. On hatching, the larvae slowly ate their father alive until they pupated in his dry husk and emerged as miniature versions of the fully grown wasps. Their likeness is used to represent all of the various Skull Island bugs in the [[Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World (Meredith Books)|electronic storybook]] based on the film. | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Decarnocimex</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Decarnocimex''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Decarnocimex.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:BD Decarnocimex.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | • ''[[King Kong (2005 film)|King Kong]]''<br> • ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Decarnocimex were five to | | ''Decarnocimex'' were five- to 10-foot-long carnivorous relatives of crickets that lived in the chasm depths of Skull Island and were famous for tearing prey apart with their bladed forelimbs. Females dragged the carcasses of small animals that fell into their domain into holes dug into the chasm walls where they laid their eggs. They then sealed themselves in with a cement-like mucus. The young would them feed on the meat until they were old enough to eat their way out of the nursery. | ||
When the crew of the ''Venture'' was thrown into a pit, several ''Decarnocimex'' were part of the onslaught they faced. Carl Denham beat one back with a short stick while another crept up from behind and attacked him alongside a swarm of Weta-rexes. More ''Decarnocimex'' crawled down the walls to join in the fray, but gunfire from above caused them to scatter. | |||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>[[Weta-rex]]</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>[[Weta-rex]]</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Weta-rex.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Weta-rex.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[King Kong (2005 film)|King Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | • ''[[King Kong (2005 film)|King Kong]]''<br> • ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| {{Main|Weta-rex}}<br>Weta- | | {{Main|Weta-rex}}<br>Weta-rexes were two- to three-foot-long relatives of the weta of New Zealand; however, unlike wetas, the Weta-rexes were ferocious carnivores. Using their shear-like mandibles, swarms of Weta-rexes could easily down an adult dinosaur. | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>[[Arachno-claw]]</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>[[Arachno-claw]]</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Arachno-claw.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Arachno-claw.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[King Kong (2005 film)|King Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | • ''[[King Kong (2005 film)|King Kong]]''<br> • ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| {{Main|Arachno-claw}}<br>Aracho- | | {{Main|Arachno-claw}}<br>Aracho-claws were spiders four to six feet in size. They laid their microscopic eggs in carrion of the chasm floor, but most were either eaten by carrion eaters, or drowned in the slime that coated the pit's bottom. They were then ingested by ''[[Carnictis]]'', in the guts of which they pupated and lived as stomach parasites until they pupated and emerged from the rectum as miniature adults. | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Megapede impurus</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>''Megapede impurus''</h5>''' | ||
| [[File:Impurus.png|center|150px]] | | [[File:Impurus.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island|The World of Kong]]'' | ||
| Megapede impurus lived in the filth below [[Terapusmordax]] colonies. The nearly three foot long centipedes fed on infant Terapusmordax that fell from the ceiling, and would strike before they could crawl back up, assuming they had not died or sustained a horrible injury. | | ''Megapede impurus'' lived in the filth below ''[[Terapusmordax]]'' colonies. The nearly three-foot-long centipedes fed on infant ''Terapusmordax'' that fell from the ceiling, and would strike before they could crawl back up, assuming they had not died or sustained a horrible injury. | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Unnamed spider</h5>''' | |||
| [[File:Test Image.png|center|150px]] | |||
! style="text-align:center" | [[King Kong (2005 novelization)|''King Kong'' (novelization)]] | |||
| While hiding from predators in a hollow beneath a tree, [[Ann Darrow]] was approached by a spider with hairy legs that were two feet long. It had only just begun to feel around on her leg when she fled from the scene in terror.{{sfn|Golden|2005|p=279}} Perhaps upset by the noise, several giant spiders, possibly of the same species encountered by Darrow, swarmed out of the cracks in the cliff walls as [[Bruce Baxter]] fired down at the bugs in the pit below to save the crew of the ''Venture''.{{sfn|Golden|2005|p=298}} | |||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Giant dragonfly</h5>''' | |||
| [[File:Test Image.png|center|150px]] | |||
! style="text-align:center" | • [[King Kong (2005 novelization)|''King Kong'' (novelization)]]<br> • ''[[Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie]]'' | |||
| A type of gigantic dragonfly-like bugs with wasp-like thoraxes were present when the surviving members of the crew of the ''Venture'' were rescued by Bruce Baxter. Several of the dragonfly creatures were blasted apart during this operation.{{sfn|Golden|2005|p=299}} In the video game, the corpses of giant dragonflies can be used to lure other creatures away from Jack if killed with a spear. Shooting them down will attract predators. | |||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Scarab beetle</h5>''' | |||
| [[File:Scrabby boi.png|center|150px]] | |||
! style="text-align:center" | • ''[[Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World (Game Boy Advance)|Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World]]'' | |||
| The island was home to sizable scarab beetles whose shells could be found on the ground under various low bushes. Their shells could be combined with sulphur to create makeshift explosives comparable to a hand grenade. | |||
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| {{Main|Swamp Locust}}<br>The Swamp Locust is a species of enormous aquatic insect that hunts by submerging its body before entrapping prey with its long legs. | | {{Main|Swamp Locust}}<br>The Swamp Locust is a species of enormous aquatic insect that hunts by submerging its body before entrapping prey with its long legs. | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Giant | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>[[Snarehunter]]</h5>''' | ||
| | | [[File:Snarehunter Valkyrie.png|center|150px]] | ||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[Kong: Skull Island]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[Kong: Skull Island]]'',<br>''[[Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure]]'' | ||
| [[ | | {{Main|Snarehunter}}<br>The Snarehunter is an ant-like superspecies with five castes, including [[Titan]] queens. | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Giant wasp</h5>''' | |||
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! style="text-align:center" | ''[[Kong: Skull Island - The Official Movie Novelization]]'' | |||
| During their expedition through the island, Conrad's party encountered a carnivorous plant with several dead animals inside its maw, including a wasp the size of Weaver’s hand. | |||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>[[Vinestrangler]]</h5>''' | |||
| [[File:Vinestrangler_1.PNG.png|center|150px]] | |||
! style="text-align:center" | ''Kong: Skull Island'' bonus feature — "Monarch Files 2.0 (Companion Archive)" | |||
| {{Main|Vinestrangler}}<br>The Vinestrangler is a slender insect which uses dozens of tentacles to drag prey into its massive maw. | |||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>[[Trapdoor Crab]]</h5>''' | |||
| [[File:Trapdoor Crab Infobox.png|center|150px]] | |||
| {{Main|Trapdoor Crab}} | |||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>[[Rock Bug]]</h5>''' | |||
| [[File:Sock Bug.jpg|center|150px]] | |||
| {{Main|Rock Bug}} | |||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Giant Ant</h5>''' | |||
| [[File:Red-Ant.png|center|150px]] | |||
| In "[[Breakfast Fit for a Kong]]", [[Charlie (Skull Island)|Charlie]] fell down a long tunnel, finally coming to a stop in a chamber occupied by a long-dead Giant Ant, which partially crumbled at his touch. [[Mike]] and [[Annie]] eventually made contact with Charlie, but [[Dog]] was uninterested in rescuing him. Mike climbed down to retrieve Charlie first, followed by a bloodthirsty Annie after a living Giant Ant dragged its deceased counterpart into the shadows. An argument between her and Mike was cut short by the giant ant's approach. Charlie rushed in with an ancient sword he found in the chamber, but it shattered against the insect's exoskeleton. Annie then lied on the ground next to the confused ant and feigned helplessness, causing Dog to descend into the chamber and chase off the ant. | |||
;Trivia | |||
*Series creator Brian Duffield declined to say whether the Giant Ant was a [[Snarehunter]], though he commented that "those were the vibes we were playing with."<ref name="Vibes"/> | |||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Giant scorpion</h5>''' | |||
| [[File:SI giant scorpion infobox.jpg|center|150px]] | |||
| In "[[Terms of Endearment]]", [[Irene]] and her mercenaries discovered the art [[Annie]] had carved on the hull of the beached ship that stranded her on [[Annie's Island]]. One scene showed her and [[Dog]] fighting a giant scorpion. | |||
;Trivia | |||
*A [[Titan]]-scale scorpion monster previously appeared in concept art for ''[[Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]''.<ref>[[File:Scorpion Titan.jpg|center|150px]]</ref> | |||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Giant centipede</h5>''' | |||
| [[File:SI giant centipede.png|center|150px]] | |||
| In "[[You'll Never Catch a Monkey That Way]]", [[Cap]] was ambushed by a giant centipede while searching for [[Charlie (Skull Island)|Charlie]]. Drawing a pocket knife, Cap prepared to defend himself, but before it could strike, a flare gun round suddenly lodged itself in its head. As it fled, he turned to find a still-sickly Mike, who blew smoke from the barrel before collapsing. | |||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>[[Mantleclaw]]</h5>''' | |||
| [[File:F-CnTRiXcAA81Mc.jpg|center|150px]] | |||
! style="text-align:center" | ''[[Monarch: Legacy of Monsters]]'' | |||
| {{Main|Mantleclaw}}<br>The Mantleclaw is a crab [[Titan]]<ref name="FirstLook">{{cite web|url=https://ew.com/tv/monarch-legacy-of-monsters-titans-first-look/|title=Tremble before this first look at the Titans from Monarch: Legacy of Monsters|author=Collis, Clark|date=3 November 2023|work=Entertainment Weekly}}</ref> that can camouflage itself using its magma-like carapace. | |||
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==''[[Kong of Skull Island (Property)|Kong of Skull Island]]''== | ==''[[Kong of Skull Island (Property)|Kong of Skull Island]]''== | ||
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! style="text-align:center" | ''[[Kong of Skull Island]]'' (2016-17) | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[Kong of Skull Island]]'' (2016-17) | ||
| While confronting [[Ewata]] in the jungle, Queen [[Usana]] of the | | While confronting [[Ewata]] in the jungle, Queen [[Usana]] of the Tagatu was nearly attacked by a giant spider, which Ewata skewered before it could cause her harm. | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Unnamed giant centipede</h5>''' | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Unnamed giant centipede</h5>''' | ||
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| While stationed on Skull Island, some gorilla troops killed a gigantic locust-like creature. | | While stationed on Skull Island, some gorilla troops killed a gigantic locust-like creature. | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Purple | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Purple fly</h5>''' | ||
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| A species of | | A species of fly that inhabited the coastal regions of Skull Island. They were far larger than a housefly, but by no means monstrous. Their bodies were purple in color. | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>White | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>White spider</h5>''' | ||
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| A species of thick-legged white spiders about two feet across inhabited the jungles, and spun webs across well-traveled paths to snare passing creatures. | | A species of thick-legged white spiders about two feet across inhabited the jungles, and spun webs across well-traveled paths to snare passing creatures. | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Giant | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Giant centipede</h5>''' | ||
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! style="text-align:center" | ''[[Kong Reborn]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[Kong Reborn]]'' | ||
| 30-inch long creatures resembling giant centipedes were a common sight in the jungle. They could be seen feeding on carrion. | | 30-inch-long creatures resembling giant centipedes were a common sight in the jungle. They could be seen feeding on carrion. | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Goliath | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Goliath fly</h5>''' | ||
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! style="text-align:center" | ''[[Kong Reborn]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[Kong Reborn]]'' | ||
| Goliath | | Goliath flies were a species of fly of a size comparable to [[wikipedia:Goliathus|Goliath beetle]]s. | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Flat | ! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Flat beetle</h5>''' | ||
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! style="text-align:center" | ''[[Kong Reborn]]'' | ! style="text-align:center" | ''[[Kong Reborn]]'' | ||
| A species of | | When a group of mercenaries arrived on Skull Island to assassinate [[Jack Denham]], what is described solely as a "huge flat beetle" could be spotted traversing the stony ground around their [[Osprey]].{{sfn|Blackford|2005|p=348}} | ||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Giant beetle</h5>''' | |||
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| A species of one-foot-long cockroach-like beetles could be seen crawling on the island's trees. One specimen was blown to bits by a mercenary who had been spooked by its hissing vocalizations.{{sfn|Blackford|2005|p=350}} | |||
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! scope="row" rowspan="1" style="font-size:95%" | '''<h5>Scavenger beetle</h5>''' | |||
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| A species of carrion feeding beetle lived on Skull Island and could be seen feeding on the carcasses of dinosaurs alongside giant vultures and other insects. | |||
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==See | ==See also== | ||
*[[Skull Island mammals]] | |||
*[[Skull Island birds and sealife]] | *[[Skull Island birds and sealife]] | ||
*[[Skull Island reptiles]] | *[[Skull Island reptiles]] | ||
==References== | |||
{{Reflist}} | |||
===Bibliography=== | |||
*{{cite book|title=[[The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island]]|last=Falconer|first=Daniel|author2=Weta Workshop|date=22 November 2005|publisher=Pocket Star|isbn=978-1-4165-0519-8}} | |||
*{{cite book|title=[[King Kong (2005 novelization)|King Kong]]|last=Golden|first=Christopher|date=13 December 2005|publisher=Pocket Star Books|isbn=978-1-4165-0391-0}} | |||
*{{cite book|title=[[Kong Reborn]]|last=Blackford|first=Russell|date=1 November 2005|publisher=ibooks|isbn=1-59687-133-4}} | |||
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[[Category:Arachnid | [[Category:Arachnid monsters]] | ||
[[Category:Universal]] | [[Category:Universal]] | ||
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— Unknown, Fall expedition to Skull Island, 1936 (The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island) |
The following is a list of arthropods living on Skull Island across the various continuities and stories featuring King Kong.
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RKO
Name | Image | Appearance(s) | Description |
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Great Spider |
King Kong (1932), "The Lost Spider Pit Sequence" (2005) |
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Octopus-Insect |
King Kong (1932), "The Lost Spider Pit Sequence" (2005) |
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Crab creature |
"The Lost Spider Pit Sequence" (2005) | A creature somewhere between a crab and a spider was intended to appear in the original film, but the sequence in which they appeared was cut and has since been lost to time. However, one appeared in Peter Jackson's recreation of the scene, in which it attacked and ate one of the crew members of the Venture. |
Universal
Name | Image | Appearance(s) | Description |
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Skull Island Termites |
The World of Kong | The Skull Island Termites were divided into three castes. The winged caste left the mound to breed, and the two soldier castes protected it. The spade-shaped variety had powerful jaws, and the narrow-headed variety could spit noxious chemicals to ward away attackers. The termites were known to make enormous termite mounds that could rival the island's dinosaurs in size. Some dinosaurs like Ferrucutus used the termites to combat dermal parasites by brushing up on the mounds and allowing the termites to kill anything unwelcome, while its own hide kept the dinosaur from harm.[1] Their larvae were a favorite source of protein for Calcarisaurus.[2] | |
Scissor-Beetle |
The World of Kong | Scissor-Beetles were blood-seeking flightless carrion-eating insects that used grasshopper-like legs to hop onto prey, where they used their blade-like mandibles to cut off chunks of meat.[3] | |
Maggotfly |
The World of Kong | Maggotflies were hairy, flying bugs that dropped their young on rotting carcasses, while feeding off the maggots left by other flies. If the adult Maggotfly was unable to deposit their young within the first few hours after their hatching, they would eat their parent, on which they rode.[3] | |
Meat Weevil |
The World of Kong | Meat Weevils were a species that laid eggs in carcasses that were so resilient that they survived being eaten by carrion feeders that hatched and emerged from the respective animal's dung.[3] | |
Carrion Centipede |
The World of Kong | Carrion Centipedes were carrion feeders that would remove meat from a carcass and bury it.[3] | |
Ornate Carrion Beetle |
The World of Kong | Ornate Carrion Beetles, in order to stake their claims at the rare and highly demanded unattended kills of Skull Island, evolved to smell carrion from miles around, and emit noxious chemicals from their brightly colored shells to deter other carrion feeders. The swarms of beetles could then stake an exclusive claim to the carcass.[4] | |
Nigracassida |
The World of Kong | Nigracassida dung beetles grew to three or four inches in length and specialized in harvesting the more than plentiful deposits of excrement on Skull Island and burying them for later consumption. They were preyed on by White Wedgeheads, a species of lizard that had evolved specifically to eat them.[5] | |
Moonspider |
The World of Kong | Moonspiders, a variety of the 10-legged Sunspiders, hunted at night to avoid being preyed upon by larger organisms. Their powerful jaws and paralytic venom made short work of the rodents, lizards, birds, and dinosaur chicks it fed on. Moonspiders adapted to pick up the scent of egg matter in the night, cluing the Moonspider in that a nest was hatching. The Moonspider then located the nest and would eat the hatchling dinosaurs.[6] | |
Estrivermus |
The World of Kong | Estrivermis were swamp-dwelling 15- to 20-inch parasites that used their sharp, pointed mouths to burrow into blood vessels and attach themselves. The Estrivermis would then attach themselves and feed from the blood vessel for the rest of its life, with its tail still hanging outside, spewing excrement and eggs into the swamp waters.[7]
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Profanus |
The World of Kong | Profanus were 20- to 30-inch-long free-swimming tapeworms that burrowed through the skin of its prey to expose the flesh and deposit its eggs into the wound. The Profanus larvae then hatched and lived in the wound until they swam away to breed.[7]
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Contereobestiolla |
The World of Kong | Contereobestiolla lived as larvae in still freshwater until they were ingested by a fish. They then attached themselves to the fish's insides, pupated and lived in the gut as fully grown one- to three-inch arthropods that fed on swallowed food, and slowly multiplied inside the fish until they took over its entire digestive system.[7] | |
Nepalacus |
The World of Kong | Nepalacus were aquatic neopedes, Skull Island descendants of centipedes, that could grow to anywhere from eight to 16 inches in length. They had webbed legs, making them agile swimmers, and there were many species with varying ranges of leg lengths and webbing patterns.[8] | |
Aspiscimex |
The World of Kong | Aspiscimex were predatory neopedes with soft, flexible bodies that lived in Skull Island's swampland. Their hind-most legs were replaced by a flat tail, and their jaws were sharp and powerful, allowing them to prey on small fish. They grew up to 18 to 23 inches in length.[9] | |
Hydruscimex |
The World of Kong | Hydruscimex were the largest neopede at lengths ranging from nine to 12 feet. Its poison was not the most potent of the neopedes, but its size alone allowed it to inject lethal doses strong enough to down small dinosaurs.[9] | |
Mortifillex |
The World of Kong | Mortifillex were three- to four-foot-long aquatic bugs that used a hook-like lure to attract prey, and specially adapted mandible-like arms to inject nerve poison.[9] | |
Scorpio-pede |
• King Kong • The World of Kong |
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Predatory Pond Skaters |
The World of Kong | Predatory Pond Skaters were insects that skimmed the surface of Skull Island's still waters that sucked fluid out of their unsuspecting victims after locating them by homing in on the ripples they created on the water's surface.[11] | |
Mortaspis |
The World of Kong | Mortaspis were black and yellow relatives of the mosquito that sucked blood in Skull Island's swamps.[12] | |
Spinaculex |
• The World of Kong • Journey to Skull Island |
Spinaculex were two-inch-long, red, spiny mosquitoes that had bulbous thoraxes that could expand to accommodate the blood they sucked. The constant drone of their wings was a constant annoyance to the young Ligocristus that lived in the swamps.[12] | |
Megapede horridus |
The World of Kong | Megapede horridus were three- to four-foot-long centipedes that used their strong legs to grab their prey from the jungle floors before injecting their venom.[13] | |
Gyas |
The World of Kong | Gyas were 20- to 30-inch-long centipedes that specialized in cracking eggshells from ground-nesting birds with their huge, scissor-like mandibles before drinking the escaping fluid.[13] | |
Megapede dereponecis |
• King Kong • The World of Kong • Kong's Kingdom • Journey to Skull Island |
Megapede dereponecis were three- to five-foot-long centipedes, and were the largest centipede species to have ever lived. Because of this, they were too heavy to climb trees, and thus they hunted in their roots for hatchling dinosaurs which they immobilized with their venom. Females chewed tunnels into rotting logs and laid their eggs inside them. They then grew extremely territorial of the log and attacked anything that may have threatened their young.[13]
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Megapede humus |
The World of Kong | Megapede humus were 26- to 40-inch-long centipedes that used their large sets of front legs to burrow underground and eat rats and other insects in their burrows.[13] | |
Stickalithus |
The World of Kong | Stickalithus were eight- to 12-foot-long spiders that ate man-sized carnivorous birds and dinosaurs. Being too large to spin an intricate web, Stickalithus instead used their silk to create a nursery for their young. To capture prey, it waited in the low branches and foliage to hide itself and dropped down to drain its prey, whose empty husks littered the ground beneath its roost.[14] | |
Wicked Weaver |
The World of Kong | Wicked Weavers were four- to six-inch-long spiders that spun thin webs to ensnare small birds, insects, and some flying lizards. While some prey was large enough to break free and fall to the jungle floor, the Wicked Weaver's venom quickly immobilized prey and minimized their chance of escape. | |
Idolon illotus |
The World of Kong | Idolon illotus were slim and fast predatorial centipedes that lived in the jungle canopy and hunted for flizards. Its venom could kill prey within moments of a bite. They could grow to sizes ranging from 10 to 14 inches.[15] | |
Idolon venefaucus |
The World of Kong | Idolon venefaucus lived in the dense leaves and vines to ambush their prey. Their grey coloring served to camouflage their 20- to 24-inch-long bodies from predators and prey. Only the Skull Island Hornbill was immune to their particular venom and thus it was the only animal species that was able to eat them without harming itself. | |
Omnimatercimex harpeforceps |
The World of Kong | Omnimatercimex harpeforceps, ranging from 30 to 35 inches in length, were the largest of the tree-dwelling Skull Island centipedes. They preyed primarily on baby birds and dinosaurs. They had the unique trait of eating a hole into their meal, and lining it with their scent to warn off carrion hunters and ate their meal whole from the inside out. Baby dinosaurs could feed an Omnimatercimex for weeks. | |
Canopy Insects |
The World of Kong | The Canopy Insects of Skull Island lived in many different ways, ranging from colony dwellers to solitary insects that were as individually adapted as one might find in any other ecosystem; however, there is no data of most of their individual behaviors provided. | |
Celocimex |
• King Kong • The World of Kong |
While the crew of the Venture were trekking through the Skull Island jungles, they were bothered by a swarm of Celocimex, which Lumpy blasted apart with his Tommy gun.
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Noxmuscus |
• King Kong • The World of Kong |
Noxmuscus were predators that chose to prey primarily on the Sap Snails of Skull Island, which fed, as their name suggests, on tree sap. The Noxmuscus had developed a strong, flat proboscis to pry the snails from trees and to allow them to drop to the jungle floor, where they would jab it into the soft flesh and drink the snail's insides.
While running away from Kong, Ann Darrow was stung on her shoulder by a Noxmuscus.
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Unguasilus |
• The World of Kong • Kong's Kingdom • Journey to Skull Island • Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World (Meredith books) |
Unguasilus were bugs that sacrificed themselves for their young, a trait not commonly found in insects. Females laid parasitic eggs on their mate's thorax. The eggs then drained their father for nutrition through his porous exoskeleton. On hatching, the larvae slowly ate their father alive until they pupated in his dry husk and emerged as miniature versions of the fully grown wasps. Their likeness is used to represent all of the various Skull Island bugs in the electronic storybook based on the film.
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Decarnocimex |
• King Kong • The World of Kong |
Decarnocimex were five- to 10-foot-long carnivorous relatives of crickets that lived in the chasm depths of Skull Island and were famous for tearing prey apart with their bladed forelimbs. Females dragged the carcasses of small animals that fell into their domain into holes dug into the chasm walls where they laid their eggs. They then sealed themselves in with a cement-like mucus. The young would them feed on the meat until they were old enough to eat their way out of the nursery.
When the crew of the Venture was thrown into a pit, several Decarnocimex were part of the onslaught they faced. Carl Denham beat one back with a short stick while another crept up from behind and attacked him alongside a swarm of Weta-rexes. More Decarnocimex crawled down the walls to join in the fray, but gunfire from above caused them to scatter.
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Weta-rex |
• King Kong • The World of Kong |
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Arachno-claw |
• King Kong • The World of Kong |
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Megapede impurus |
The World of Kong | Megapede impurus lived in the filth below Terapusmordax colonies. The nearly three-foot-long centipedes fed on infant Terapusmordax that fell from the ceiling, and would strike before they could crawl back up, assuming they had not died or sustained a horrible injury. | |
Unnamed spider |
King Kong (novelization) | While hiding from predators in a hollow beneath a tree, Ann Darrow was approached by a spider with hairy legs that were two feet long. It had only just begun to feel around on her leg when she fled from the scene in terror.[16] Perhaps upset by the noise, several giant spiders, possibly of the same species encountered by Darrow, swarmed out of the cracks in the cliff walls as Bruce Baxter fired down at the bugs in the pit below to save the crew of the Venture.[17] | |
Giant dragonfly |
• King Kong (novelization) • Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie |
A type of gigantic dragonfly-like bugs with wasp-like thoraxes were present when the surviving members of the crew of the Venture were rescued by Bruce Baxter. Several of the dragonfly creatures were blasted apart during this operation.[18] In the video game, the corpses of giant dragonflies can be used to lure other creatures away from Jack if killed with a spear. Shooting them down will attract predators. | |
Scarab beetle |
• Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World | The island was home to sizable scarab beetles whose shells could be found on the ground under various low bushes. Their shells could be combined with sulphur to create makeshift explosives comparable to a hand grenade. |
Monsterverse
Name | Image | Appearance(s) | Description |
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Mother Longlegs |
Kong: Skull Island, Skull Island: The Birth of Kong |
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Spore Mantis |
Kong: Skull Island |
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Swamp Locust |
Skull Island: The Birth of Kong |
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Snarehunter |
Kong: Skull Island, Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure |
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Giant wasp |
Kong: Skull Island - The Official Movie Novelization | During their expedition through the island, Conrad's party encountered a carnivorous plant with several dead animals inside its maw, including a wasp the size of Weaver’s hand. | |
Vinestrangler |
Kong: Skull Island bonus feature — "Monarch Files 2.0 (Companion Archive)" |
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Trapdoor Crab |
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Rock Bug |
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Giant Ant |
In "Breakfast Fit for a Kong", Charlie fell down a long tunnel, finally coming to a stop in a chamber occupied by a long-dead Giant Ant, which partially crumbled at his touch. Mike and Annie eventually made contact with Charlie, but Dog was uninterested in rescuing him. Mike climbed down to retrieve Charlie first, followed by a bloodthirsty Annie after a living Giant Ant dragged its deceased counterpart into the shadows. An argument between her and Mike was cut short by the giant ant's approach. Charlie rushed in with an ancient sword he found in the chamber, but it shattered against the insect's exoskeleton. Annie then lied on the ground next to the confused ant and feigned helplessness, causing Dog to descend into the chamber and chase off the ant.
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Giant scorpion |
In "Terms of Endearment", Irene and her mercenaries discovered the art Annie had carved on the hull of the beached ship that stranded her on Annie's Island. One scene showed her and Dog fighting a giant scorpion.
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Giant centipede |
In "You'll Never Catch a Monkey That Way", Cap was ambushed by a giant centipede while searching for Charlie. Drawing a pocket knife, Cap prepared to defend himself, but before it could strike, a flare gun round suddenly lodged itself in its head. As it fled, he turned to find a still-sickly Mike, who blew smoke from the barrel before collapsing. | ||
Mantleclaw |
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters |
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Kong of Skull Island
Name | Image | Appearance(s) | Description |
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Giant spider |
Kong of Skull Island (2016-17) | While confronting Ewata in the jungle, Queen Usana of the Tagatu was nearly attacked by a giant spider, which Ewata skewered before it could cause her harm. | |
Unnamed giant centipede |
Kong: Gods of Skull Island (2017) | While Captain Cooper and his four remaining crewmen of the 1912 Conrad expedition to Skull Island was being chased through the jungle by Kong, a giant purple centipede with many red eyes leaped out of the jungle and ate one of the sailors. | |
Giant worm |
Kong: Gods of Skull Island (2017) | In Bar-Atu's Kong religion, there is a tale of Kong's youth stating that when Kong was young, he was kidnapped by a giant worm from the center of the Earth, and rescued by his mother with whom he helped to kill the worm and liberate its followers. | |
Giant mosquitoes |
Kong: Gods of Skull Island (2017) | A swarm of gigantic mosquitoes attacked Conrad and his missionaries as they trekked through the jungle. | |
Giant locust |
Kong on the Planet of the Apes (2018) | While stationed on Skull Island, some gorilla troops killed a gigantic locust-like creature. |
Kong Reborn
Name | Image | Appearance(s) | Description |
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Purple fly |
Kong Reborn | A species of fly that inhabited the coastal regions of Skull Island. They were far larger than a housefly, but by no means monstrous. Their bodies were purple in color. | |
White spider |
Kong Reborn | A species of thick-legged white spiders about two feet across inhabited the jungles, and spun webs across well-traveled paths to snare passing creatures. | |
Giant centipede |
Kong Reborn | 30-inch-long creatures resembling giant centipedes were a common sight in the jungle. They could be seen feeding on carrion. | |
Goliath fly |
Kong Reborn | Goliath flies were a species of fly of a size comparable to Goliath beetles. | |
Flat beetle |
Kong Reborn | When a group of mercenaries arrived on Skull Island to assassinate Jack Denham, what is described solely as a "huge flat beetle" could be spotted traversing the stony ground around their Osprey.[22] | |
Giant beetle |
Kong Reborn | A species of one-foot-long cockroach-like beetles could be seen crawling on the island's trees. One specimen was blown to bits by a mercenary who had been spooked by its hissing vocalizations.[23] | |
Scavenger beetle |
Kong Reborn | A species of carrion feeding beetle lived on Skull Island and could be seen feeding on the carcasses of dinosaurs alongside giant vultures and other insects. |
See also
References
This is a list of references for Skull Island bugs. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]
Bibliography
- Falconer, Daniel; Weta Workshop (22 November 2005). The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island. Pocket Star. ISBN 978-1-4165-0519-8.
- Golden, Christopher (13 December 2005). King Kong. Pocket Star Books. ISBN 978-1-4165-0391-0.
- Blackford, Russell (1 November 2005). Kong Reborn. ibooks. ISBN 1-59687-133-4.
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