Even though it harmless and eats all the nasty bugs around the house why are we scared of common house spider?

Question

Because it's one of natures best killers, kills flies that carry disease, i mean they must be useful around the home
Any Ideas

Answer 1

I'm on your side, I don't mind them because I know they are more beneficial than harmful, at least where I live in the U.S. We only have 1 venemous spider in the North East.
But oddly enough I've seen many full grown brutish men scream and run like little girls when they spot a spider.
Maybe it's the influence of horror films, nature shows. Maybe it's something about those gangly 8 legs, or the way the kind of catch you off guard.
My suggestion to anyone who's scared of spiders, read up on other household insects such as ants, roaches, ticks, fleas, mosquitos, and flies. You'll soon realize the spiders should be your friends.

Answer 2

I hate anything that has more than 4 legs. I just can't watch them move. Even seeing them in a book or on TV, I can touch the page in the book or I have to change the channel. I have no idea why I'm so scared of them. It's a complete irrational fear, and apparently they're the hardest to get over.

I say get rid of the flies and then there's no more need for spiders!!

Kill 'em all !! (joke) lol

Answer 3

Humans have an inbuilt sense of what it takes to survive just as any creature has. Although it may seem remarkable that we steer clear of spiders because some may be poisonous we simply are repulsed by things that don't look like us. We also have a natural affinity with creature that are 'like self'. Cute little baby monkies are cute because they trigger all the right zones in our social vision, big eyes, little hands etc. The further away from these 'like self' triggers you get, generally the more wary of the creature we are. So lots of legs, lots of eyes, moves fast and is a strange shape = scary.

Answer 4

Because young children learn to be afraid of the same thing the people around them fear.

Some things we learn to fear faster than others, spiders and snakes among them. There's a selective advantage in rapidly learning to avoid dangerous animals, they're distinctively shaped enough for a built in neural template to possibly exist.

There's an interesting study concerning nonhuman primates that shows their young learn to fear snakes with fewer exposures to adult response than other stimuli (sorry, I can't find it). Spiders probably get a similar response in people.

Answer 5

I think it's the way they move all slow and creepy like, but then dead fast when they want to..

Wee ones don't bother me, but their was this big one in my room at Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim and itwould sit almost flush with the wall and then raise up and run. It scared the bejeesus out of me. In the end I got the jug for washing your bum in the bathroom and a piece of card board, threw the whole lot oot the window and bloked up all the holes!

Don't like Cockroaches either - when you pick them up to throw them out it feels like they've got 20 legs uuuuuurgh, didn't see too many of them though, had a big one in Tatopani in Nepal. Uuuurgh

Gives me the heebedajeebies

Answer 6

i think because we are naturally born with a fear of strange things. this basic instinct has allowed people and ancestors to survive. also at a young age, people may influence our judgement that all bugs are yucky. this reinforces our natural instinct and we stay away from spiders. but if we were told they are not dangerous, we can get accustomed to them eventually, like the dark.

Answer 7

I think it is the difference in body shape, count of legs and movement that makes it. Furthermore most are dark which is (at least in the western world) a bad omen sign.

Answer 8

Because we don't fully understand them, why they do this or do that:

I'm not afraid of my Dad. I know that when he disciplines me, he does it out of love. He still loves me. I don't kill him or run away just because he yelled at me.

Perhaps when a spider is approaching you, it could be saying: hey, stop there, theres a bug on your head, lemmie geddit

Answer 9

I am not scared of them, I let the little ones crawl on my hand, and I showed my children that. I want them to be like me, and not be affraid. No harm is going to happen unless you are living in the jungle.

Answer 10

some spiders are very poinsiness unless yor a insect specilist u dont no which one is harless so the best thing to do is kill them or stay away from them