Why are people scared of spiders?

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That's why.

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@B00tdisk & T-bone
Yikes, that's scary! :-o

I belive that the worst spiders we have here, is about as poisonous as european bees (rather harmless unless the would gets infected).
The same goes for snakes and insects (though european hornets are nasty :|)

In other words: They don't bug me (pun intended)

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erhaps before we discovered America or more importantly Australia, spiders were perhaps regarded the same as any other kind of `insect`....
Perhaps, with stories brought back from those lands somehow tainted our view of these creatures...

That might be the case. I dislike hornets far more than any arachnid.

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"Someone called the exterminator?" :-D