Baby Spiders Research Papers

I am afraid of spiders, because when I watch them on TV and they are in people’s bed and houses and if they bite you it makes a giant bite mark as big as a your hand, its inside is blue and the outside is red.

I have a major fear of clowns. It started with a terrible occurrence in my youth. Everytime I see one I have this horrible feeling that makes me sick. Of my experiences, I had one encounter that made my fear somewhat decrease. Most of my fear from them is what I didn't know or see. But I'm still not afraid of the circus.

I got my fear when something was moving under my bed in the middle of the night and my brother said it was the bogeyman. So ever since I have been petrified at night of the bogeyman.

My worst fear is getting shots. This arose when I was two years old, and had many visits to the doctor’s office because there were concerns about my respiratory system. I had to have many blood tests, which weren’t only scary, but also were painful. The blood tests came out normal, but it was later discovered I had asthma. After I had a severe reaction to tree nuts at around five, I had to have even more blood tests to determine if I had other allergies.

Introduction: Almost everyone has an irrational fear or two—of mice, for example, or your annual dental checkup. For most people, these fears are minor. But when fears become so severe that they cause tremendous anxiety and interfere with your normal life, they’re called phobias. A phobia is an intense fear of something that, in reality, poses little or no actual danger. Common phobias and fears include closed-in places, heights, highway driving, flying insects, snakes, and needles. However, we can develop phobias of virtually anything. Most phobias develop in childhood, but they can also develop in adults. If you

Arachnophobia is an extreme or irrational fear of spiders. Someone is arachnophobic when their fear of spiders reaches a level that it is irrational, illogical and unhelpful. Arachnophobia is an everyday fear, it changes what people might do with their day depending on the likeliness of seeing a spider. As with all phobias the cause or causes can be unknown, and can vary from person to person. Some people do have a very real experience that causes initial fear, which can then stay with them, and, as they avoid the object they are scared of, they reinforce the negative experience, and over time develop a phobia. The traditional old-fashioned way to treat arachnophobia is via systematic desensitization link to phobias and fears. Systematic desensitization

I’ve lived in Arizona since I was a kid and when I first moved here I was hanging out in my backyard and I was poking around an old dirty tool shed out back when I looked down, (I was wearing sandals) to see a small spider, a black widow less than inch from my left big toe. It touched my foot and I jumped, causing it to scatter and run. I could see the red spot on it, on the thorax, a signal that it was a female and ran inside. It didn’t bite me, but maybe if I had been a bit less observant, I would’ve been bitten and while it likely wouldn’t have killed me, it was the closest to harm I’ve ever come with a spider. Now if I could talk about dogs...

However, there are great reasons to love spiders. In the United States, only two kids of spiders are truly harmful to humans (the Brown Recluse, and the Black Widow). The remaining spider species eat other insects we don't want around anyway. They eat mosquitoes carrying malaria (the world's number one fatal disease) and flies carrying cholera. Spiders don't want to bite you. Spiders have horrific eyesight and can't even see you until you are about a foot

In the article, Spider Files, James McDonald and Lynn Dominguez describe a lesson on students having first-hand experiences with spiders in order to debunk student misconceptions. They mention that misconceptions children have are very hard to change because they become habits (McDonald and Dominguez, p.73, 2012). Some of the misconceptions they touch on are: all spiders make webs, spiders are insects, and most spiders cannot bite humans because their fangs are too small (p.73, 2012). For the engaging part of the lesson, McDonald and Dominguez had students answer what they know about spiders, draw a picture of a spider, and describe where a spider lives (p.74, 2012). Through these questions, the teachers were able to trigger the students’ curiosity.

The tragic tale of how spiders came into existence began with a young girl named Arachne; naive, prideful and a bit too talented. Arachne challenged Athena, the goddess of weaving. In some versions of the myth Arachne directly declared her superiority to the goddess and challenged Athena, and in other versions, her sheer skill challenged the goddess. A contest followed, and although Arachne's weaving was better than Athena's, it was disrespectful and showed a disgraceful vision of the gods. Weaving the gods in a bad light was a tragic mistake for Arachne, and she paid for the transgression with her human life. Athena in a rage decided to allow Arachne to weave forever and turned her into a spider, or, scientifically known as an arachnid (Hamilton 302-303).

First of all, a fear of mine is the ocean. I have this fear because the idea of a wave coming towards you while your in the water and getting swept from land and also sharks, stingrays, etc. Also, the idea that we've only explored only %3 of our oceans is kind of creepy. I've had this fear for around 6 years. I expect to overcome this fear sometime.

Also, my other fear is Entomophobia this is the fear of bugs. It is just the way it moves and look; however, the three bugs that scare me the most is spiders, centipedes, and bees. Spider scares me the most because they move so sneaky yet, so fast ready to spring into action. I think what scares me the most about spiders is that they can come in all shapes, sizes and colors. You never can know which ones are poisoning because some are the exact same color. However, Centipedes creep me out just as much as spiders. They are long but, they can blast off like a rocket freaking you out, trying to run for

I believe everyone is afraid of something, whether it be spiders, snakes, or even heights. But sometimes, we have to man up and face our fears. Everybody has to do this someday or else we will live our lives just being afraid of that one thing. Stephen King rightly claims that humans crave horror to face our fears; however, he is wrong to claim that humans crave horror to re-establish our feelings of normalcy and to experience a peculiar sort of fun.

Arachnophobia has been my companion since childhood. My irrational panic on sighting a spider amused others and sometimes annoyed them. In my freshman year, two band students and I were moving the bass drum, when I noticed a small black spider nearby. My heart started racing, my palms became sweaty, I froze, and I wanted to escape from there. However, I did not want to embarrass myself in front of my section and I reminded myself – “You are much bigger than a spider, it cannot harm you”. I took a deep breath, mustered all my courage, and moved the drum, while willfully ignoring the spider. After what seemed like moving a boulder for an eternity, I realized that I was still alive. It worked! My rational thinking triumphed over my irrational

One of my biggest pet peeves is that I have a big fear of very high heights. Heights is one of the only fears I have, I would love to, to go skydiving one day but my fear of heights would hold me back.