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10 sty 2018 · The best books on Spiders. recommended by Lawrence Bee. You don't have to be a professional arachnologist to study and get excited about spiders—nor do you need to travel away from home. The author of Britain's Spiders, Lawrence Bee, recommends all the books you need to become an amateur arachnologist. Interview by Sophie Roell, Editor.
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4 sty 2024 · A 2023 study of ten spider species found most spiders froze for about a minute in response to a few rapid puffs of air. Jorō spiders lay motionless for more than an hour.
28 wrz 2022 · As many as 4 per cent of us are terrified by spiders—in most surveys, they come second only to snakes as objects of phobia. For the author Jenny Diski, autumn was an “annual festival of anxiety and horror,” because it was the season in which spiders came indoors to nest.
15 lis 2021 · Spiders are mostly harmless, yet they often trigger high levels of both fear and disgust, and arachnophobia (the phobia of spiders) ranks among the most common specific animal phobias.
The problem with this theory is that arachnophobia is much more common in Europe than in Africa or South America. An alternative hypothesis is that spiders mistakenly became associated with disease in the Middle Ages – particularly with the Black Death.
13 lip 2021 · Previous research has shown that “legginess,” spider movement, spider size, and hairiness (Davey, 1991; Lindner et al., 2019) or perceived danger (Cranshaw, 2006) are prominent cues associated with fear and disgust of spiders. In this article, we used a forced-choice paradigm and a representative non-clinical sample of participants to ...
23 paź 2017 · What is it about spiders and their eight arched legs – sometimes fat and furry, or thin like dark needles – crawling close, ever closer to our skin, that provokes such fear and outright revulsion?
