Why are people scared of spiders?

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Hum,
maybe because they move in a totally alien way to you humans...?
Which is a shame really,

since they taste of shrimp when cooked on a nice barbie...
(though the legs do stick between your teeth...)

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Hum,

Perhaps it's quite a recent phenomenon?
Perhaps 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...
 
And considering that the common housefly and mosquito has killed more people than everything else, i think we should give the spiders a break...


[anyone know the story of The Bruce & spider?]

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Hum,
I think this calls for an obligatory picture from  Starship Troopers

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Hum,
thats a bit like `add the lines`...

"Honey, you forgot to put the plug in the bath"

or
"He now regretted putting that slug bait into his garden"

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Yea, a deadly difference

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Hum,
i imagine it would have been difficult to get rid of her...

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@pmc
hum,
i just  read an article that about chitosan, (it's derived from shrimp shells, and shrimps are basically spiders...)

well you can patch up yourself with a chitosan bandage...

[i had heard of using spiders webs to help clotting]

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@X-ray


Hum,
And that  one was just a  young one


[ Or are Aliens not allowed into your country? ]