Arthropods in film Arthropods in film Arthropods, mainly insects and arachnids, are used in film either to create fear and disgust in horror and thriller movies, or they are anthropomorphized and used as sympathetic characters in animated children's movies. There are over 1,000,000 species of arthropods, including such familiar animals as ants, spiders, shrimps, crabs and butterflies. Early 20th century films had difficulty featuring small insects due to technical difficulties in film-stock exposure and the quality of lenses available. Horror movies involving arthropods include the pioneering 1954 "Them!", featuring giant ants mutated by radiation, and the 1957 "The Deadly Mantis". Films based on
Ticks of domestic animals or more, respectively, whilst questing on the vegetation. Thus it is usually not practical to control them by pasture management. In addition, farmers find the priority to provide their stock with good feed often conflicts with the regimes for pasture rotation for tick control. Ticks affecting dogs and other companion animals around private houses are reduced by clearing of vegetation and leaf litter, mowing grass short, and fencing out deer and other wild animals that bring in ticks. Compared to other arthropods of veterinary and medical importance most species of ticks are long-lived over their whole life-cycle. "Ixodes" species in