Joint Legged Animals—Arthropods

Duration: 684 ft.

Year Published: 1962

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica

Complete Record: Uses time-lapse and photomicrography to show the five classes of arthropods-- crustaceans, centipedes, millepedes, arachnids, and insects. Explains that arthropods include a great number of species occupying a greater variety of habitats than other animals.f9 Crustaceans moving through water. CU of a crustacean shedding it’s skin. Lobsters fighting in water. Lobster pulling off its broken claw. CU of lobster’s eyes, antennas, mouths, legs, and claws. Lobster eating a shrimp. CU of lobster’s gills. CU of crayfish’s heart, crayfish eggs. Tiny crayfish are hatching from eggs. Lobster larva hatching into tiny lobsters. Shot of a spotted crab in water. Crabs moving on land. Shots of a fairy shrimp. A shot a fossil trilobite. Shots of water flies. CU of centipedes’ mouth and legs. Shots of segmented worms. Shots of a peripatus. Shot of a millipede moving up a bark. CU of millipedes’ legs. Shots of arachnids, spiders, mites, scorpions , ticks, king crab of the sea. A chart comparing spiders and other insects. CU of spider’s eyes. A shot of a yellow and black spider spinning a web. A spider entangling a prey. A shot of trap door spider. The trap door spider hides under a door and captures whatever comes by. CU of grasshoppers. Many grasshoppers hopping around in the grass. CU of grasshoppers’ eyes. CU of house fly eyes. The birth of a housefly. Shot of larva hatching into flies. CU of potato beetles, mosquitoes, aquatic larva, wasp eggs, and butterflies. Shots of the metamorphosis of the butterfly. CU of larva, caterpillar, cocoon, and the hatching of the butterfly. Shots of ants crawling on the ground. Shots of bee colonies. Shot of bees in beehive. Shot of leaf cutting ants carrying leaves. CU of cutting leaves. CU of their nest. Shots of different insect colonies. Swarms of army ants. Shots of damages that insect can make to crops.