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Post by tv on Sept 18, 2020 6:36:29 GMT -8
Richard Vetter, a retired arachnologist won an IgNobel prize for his article on entomologists that are arachnophobic. It turns out that there are quite a few folks that work with "gross" bugs all day long but still can't deal with spiders.
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Post by nomihoudai on Sept 18, 2020 7:10:23 GMT -8
I would want to add that arachnophobic is not just about loving or hating them, when you are arachnophobic they literally scare you and can induce panic.
I fit the stereotype then. But it's not related to all spider families. I do like Salticidae and have no fear in handling them. I think for me the trigger are pointy legs. The pointier the worse. I hate crab spiders. I have never seen a huntsman spider in my life, but I guess I might get a heart attack when doing so. Lol.
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Post by Paul K on Sept 18, 2020 9:39:05 GMT -8
I’m arachnophobic too. I don’t know what triggers the fear. Small spiders I can handle to look at or get close to them but anything bigger than a quarter (25cents) including legs I better turn around and run.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Sept 18, 2020 12:06:10 GMT -8
I don't like spiders, but living in Thailand I have got used to them being EVERYWHERE, and some are huge. We have spiders that come into the house that scurry around with legs about 5 inches across. Elsehere I mentioned how baby tarantulas also come inside from time to time.
I don't much like the ones that make webs strung across paths or between bushes which you don't notice until you walk through them. It's the webs that I don't like more than the spiders themselves.
Adam.
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Post by exoticimports on Sept 18, 2020 15:44:07 GMT -8
Only thing that scares me is people.
Spider is cool thing with potential for specimens in web.
Sharks are food.
Snakes are food.
Urchins are food.
Dogs are food.
I think I see a trend.
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Post by bandrow on Sept 30, 2020 6:15:06 GMT -8
Exoticimports,
I think your trend ends with Charlton Heston yelling "Soylent Green is...."
Cheers!
Bandrow
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Post by Adam Cotton on Sept 30, 2020 6:45:33 GMT -8
Only thing that scares me is people. Spider is cool thing with potential for specimens in web. Sharks are food. Snakes are food. Urchins are food. Dogs are food. I think I see a trend. Here in SE Asia tarantulas are definitely FOOD. Adam. |
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Post by exoticimports on Sept 30, 2020 11:45:20 GMT -8
I don’t know why they eat tarantulas, I think they taste like sawdust.
Grasshoppers with soy though, they are awesome.
It still strikes me as odd that entomologists could suffer arachnophobia. I suppose though they suffer less than most people because entomologists can actually identify what is NOT a spider.
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Post by Paul K on Sept 30, 2020 13:19:56 GMT -8
I never tried tarantula or see someone else eating it, but I suppose after adding all the spices and a lot of chilly they must taste ok.
I will never know as being scared of spider I won’t eat one too.
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Post by kevinkk on Sept 30, 2020 19:09:05 GMT -8
this is a great topic!
Tarantulas I can handle, literally,it's the soft fuzzy legs that make the difference. Pointy legs are too creepy, as a kid, I had a tarantula,
and found a big orb weaver, it was all I could do to let the thing crawl over my arm while I said "it's just a spider" while I kept my arm
glued to the concrete patio. It's one of those weird things I guess. I bought an orb weaver egg case last season but nothing hatched, I thought
it would be fun to raise at least one, I still have the frame cage I made. Webs, are great for pictures though,and I've got 2 clocks I've made
with orb weaver webs, easy to do.
No way am I going to find out what any spider or insect tastes like, at least knowingly.
They don't scare me, but they do pop up when they're not welcome, I have a 50/50 smush to capture and release ratio when they appear on the wall, the bed,
but in the sink, well, they go down with Boris.
Knowledge is power, I am not the least bit concerned about being stung by a hoverfly...or sawtail
I can appreciate jumping spiders, and the crab spiders, perhaps it's the coloration that is my "trigger"
Aren't spiders competition for entomologists?
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Post by leptraps on Oct 1, 2020 5:37:37 GMT -8
In 2010 there was a terrible earth quake in Haiti. I volunteered through my church to go to Haiti and help with the recovery. I was in Haiti 17 days.
I saw people digging in a landfill in search of something to eat. Now I have been hungry a time or two in my life time, but I have never been that desperate.
We should thank God every day that we live in the USA.
After consuming a couple of MRE (Meals Ready to Eat.), the Landfill option did not look too bad.
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Post by leptraps on Oct 1, 2020 5:48:23 GMT -8
One more thing, if any you are into eating Insects, including spiders, Scorpions, Cockroaches, and I will include Snakes and Lizards, I do not want to hear another word about Waffle House's.
I forgot a couple more for my list. Liver & Onions, Dogs, and Rats.
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Post by joachim on Oct 4, 2020 18:30:13 GMT -8
I voted neutral. When I was young I had much fear but i studied biology and then, okay I respect them and sometimes the spiders have fantastic technics . and they have no mercy when the have an insect or a differnt spider.Some eat theis husbands. No good idea.
anyway I heard that 99.9 % of all spiders are afraid of::::::::::::::: humans.
Joachim
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Post by joachim on Oct 4, 2020 18:30:28 GMT -8
or even 99.98 %
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Post by joachim on Oct 4, 2020 18:30:41 GMT -8
or 99.99 %
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