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8 Responses to “Spider with babies”

1. Dale Campbell says:

   February 27, 2011 at 3:43 pm

   I have two particularly bad spider experiences as a boy – and mild arachnophobia

   Luckily, I have a wife who fights my battles for me (i.e. she was not bothered at all by seeing a spider as big as her hand today by our house!)
2. Damian says:

   February 27, 2011 at 4:28 pm

   I used to have a great fear of wetas but have largely overcome it by forcing myself to spend time watching them up close and even holding them. (Of course if one was to crawl onto me without my knowing I’d totally freak but I’ve found that this method of ‘observational appreciation’ really helps! Both spiders and wetas are truly awesome creatures and don’t deserve the bad reputation they have.)
3. Dale Campbell says:

   February 28, 2011 at 8:39 am

   “forcing myself to spend time… even holding them” <– that's the bit I'd struggle with!!
4. david winter says:

   February 28, 2011 at 1:22 pm

   Daddy longlegs! (or Pholcus phalangioides since that first name means different things in different countries)

   I’m about as archono-philic as it’s healthy to be, but I still find myself convulsing in terror when one I’m looking at or holding makes a sudden lurch towards me. I think there is something deep in the back of our minds that just reacts to spiders, we can use reason and experience to control it but I don’t think we’ll ever completely master it!
5. Dale Campbell says:

   March 5, 2011 at 1:36 pm

   (loving the new gravatar, Damian!) H)
6. Dale Campbell says:

   March 5, 2011 at 1:37 pm

   …ok, so that smiley backfired on me
7. Damian says:

   March 5, 2011 at 8:59 pm

   Thanks Dale.
   What kind of smilie were you going for? Was the ‘H’ beaming teeth?
8. Dale Campbell says:

   March 5, 2011 at 10:14 pm

   was meant to be!