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美杜莎蜘蛛 是在小岛上发现的一种蜘蛛。 在 第3季 第14集 , Dr. Arzt 向Nikki展示了一只装在瓶子里的雌性的美杜莎蜘蛛，这只是坠机之后他收集的20多种昆虫中的一只。他对Nikki解释说，美杜莎是非常危险的，它的雌性荷尔蒙非常厉害，如果瓶子开着口的话，岛上每一只雄性蜘蛛都会立刻来找它。 当 Nikki 知道Paulo找到了他们偷的钻石却没有告诉她的时候，她放出了美杜莎去攻击他。他被咬了之后，她告诉他美杜莎的毒液不会杀死他，但会引起大概8小时的全身麻痹，麻痹到连医生都无法听到他的心跳。 Arzt说过的关于荷尔蒙的信息很快得到了证实，雌性的美杜莎蜘蛛从瓶子里放出来之后，大量的雄性美杜莎蜘蛛在树林里出现了。Nikki 也被蜘蛛咬了, 由于之后他们俩出现了全身麻痹的症状，其他815航班的幸存者误以为他们已经死了，将他们活埋了。 。
A specimen freely traversing on the island Template:Crossref
细节[]
- The NYC taxi cab sound effect associated with the Monster can be heard just before Nikki is bitten by the other spiders. In the March 21, 2008 edition of the Official Lost Podcast, Damon says the Medusa spiders were a form of the Monster.
- In Missing Pieces 第9集 Arzt is seen catching spiders, as well.
- 美杜莎蜘蛛是虚构出来的一种蜘蛛。
- Arzt 把美杜莎蜘蛛叫作 Latrodectus regina, 它是黑寡妇蜘蛛的一种。
- 希腊语"Medusa" 和拉丁文 "regina" 的意思都是 "女王"。
- "Medusa" could also reference a creature of Greek mythology: a snake-haired Gorgon which could turn people to stone upon eye contact.
- The spider used in filming is Argiope appensa which is from a different family of spiders than the genus Latrodectus.
- The "males" are also females, as the real males are much smaller. Argiope appensa was introduced in Hawaii and is a very common there. It's natural range is in Taiwan and New Guinea.
- A featurette about the real-world spider handlers used for the filming of Lost is an easter egg in the deleted scenes section of the Lost: The Complete Third Season (DVD).
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