Why are we sooooo afraid of spiders?

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We moved into an old house that no one lived in for 3 years..It was full of spiders.....no roaches, just spiders. I think the spiders ate the roaches......anyway one night I started to gag and woke up....A huge spider had crawled in my mouth while i was sleeping....I think it was looking for a home........but in my mouth? not in his lifetime, which was cut short by a very large book!
I could not sleep for at least 2 days and nights, and then I bombed the house 3 times a day for 3 days. Do you really know what crawls in YOUR mouth when you are sleeping?

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The damn things can be deadly poisonus thats why.

They move so fast and bite us...

you are, I'm not.....and spiders are everywhere.....they don't kill you...

I'm not afraid, I'm terrified!

maybe we can imagine them six feet tall and three feet wide?

I'm not.

it's a 'phobia'. It's an irrational fear which means there is no explanation or reason.

Because they come in the night and steal our cars, make long distance calls and skip out before the bill come in and then we are stuck paying for it, but worst of all is that they leave cabinet doors and drawers open.

EWWWW! YUCK!

Have you ever seen that episode of Gilligan's Island with the giant spider... I was traumatized at an early age!! ;-)

coz they r:

really very creepy
very disgusting
strange black color
have loads of dirty legs
they can go anywhere on ur body
& big ones r very hairy..!!

This is why:

http://www.e-bug.net/pests/brownrecluse.shtml

Not everyone.

Because they have like 16 eyes or something. Anything that needs that many eyes is freakin' scary man.

I'm not.They are natural predators. They eat other bugs that fly
in their webs helping to keep them out of your home.

It all comes down to an inbuilt fear from thousands of years of evolution, when we were mere cavepeople, we would have been scared of spiders, as they could and would kill us...

Why some people are scared, and some aren't, comes down to the same evolution principles as why some of us are tall, some are short, we're all different...

Even though we are much larger than spiders and we can squish em they are creepy with the legs and all......eww

ummm there soooooo ugly can they have 8 legs and i hate them to death

I keep asking myself the same question. You're not alone on this one.

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