Kate enters complaining of an aircrew's handling of her sub-arctic crocotta. Accounts of this mythic beast date back 2000 years. It was held to be a wolf-dog or hyena-dog of great ferocity and capable of mimicing human speach to lure people out into the night.
The attack of the millipedes in this episode are very reminiscent of the replicators from SG1
Henry says the SOS is coming from '300 clicks west of Cartagena in the Colombian Highlands'. Cartagena is on the west coast, 300 miles or kilometers west is in the Caribbean Sea. There are highlands south and east of Cartagena.
The establishing shot of Colombian highlands shows flat top mesas rising above heavy fog. Not like the Colombian highlands, these look exatcly like the tepuis of the Venezuelan highlands in Canaima National Park.
Magnus eyeballs white membranes and says the material lacks the alternating crystalline structures of spider silk. Granted spider silk is built on alternating crystalline and amorphous blocks. However, these structures are too small to be seen with light waves; it took Atomic Force Microscopy to first reveal them.