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Spider researcher says education is the key to overcoming fear of spiders

An Australian spider researcher plans to help people overcome their fear of spiders, by educating them about the fascinating and 'unpredictable' creatures.
Posted by: admin , June 9, 2017
  • An Australian spider researcher says spiders should be a source of fascination, and so plans to educate people to help them overcome their fear of the ‘unpredictable’ creatures.
  • According to Robert Whyte, from Queensland Museum, the fear is is unnecessarily passed on between generations.
  • Being arachnophobic, I was not particularly comforted by Robert’s statement: “They’re just very unpredictable because they’ve got legs that allow them to move in any direction at great speed and there are only about three or four groups that can do that”.
  • Robert says that it is reasonable for us to be wary of certain dangerous species of spiders (such as the Funnel Web), but that an indiscriminate fear of spiders is wrong, as many are relatively harmless. One such ‘harmless spider’ is the Huntsman. Look it up if you don’t know what that is…
  • To help us, Robert has published a Field Guide to Spiders of Australia through the CSIRO.

Read more:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/new-book-hopes-that-people-can-learn-to-love-spiders/news-story/5736b2833094891d5592b84ff8707da8

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-07/knowledge-key-to-treating-arachnophobia/8597028

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Tags: Arachnophobic, Csiro, Dangerous species, Education, Fear of spiders, Field guide to spiders of Australia, Funnel-web, huntsman, Queensland museum, Robert Whyte, Spider researchers, Spiders

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