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15 kwi 2014 · Luckily for all of us, the “fact” that people swallow eight spiders in their sleep yearly isn’t true. Not even close. The myth flies in the face of both spider and human biology, which makes...
24 sty 2017 · If you’re worried about eating spiders or other insects, you’re far more likely to have chomped on them when you’re wide awake, as they’re often found in processed food and one estimate suggests the average person unintentionally eats about half a kilo of insects every year.
The belief that we swallow an average of eight spiders in our sleep every year has become so ingrained in popular culture that many people now accept it as fact. The reality, however, is quite different: we swallow no spiders at all.
4 paź 2021 · It's officially arachnicide season in the Northern Hemisphere. Millions of spiders have appeared in our homes – and they'd better be on their guard. Why do we kill them so casually?
20 paź 2019 · You may have heard that the average person swallows 8 spiders per year while sleeping. Learn the origin of this data and why it shouldn't worry you.
Dr Matt Wilkinson, from Cambridge University's department of zoology, says: "There's a myth that you swallow about eight spiders a year in your sleep. "It is a myth - though one that many...
15 mar 2017 · Biologists have calculated that the global population of spiders consumes 400 million to 800 million tonnes of primarily insect prey every year. Researchers set out to put a value on...
