This question just popped up in my mind after being scared by the tiniest of spiders. It’s such a universal fear yet it’s completely irrational, in most cases atleast.
There’s very little most insects can do to you, unless you live in Australia lol.
So why are we so scared of something that we can just kill with one slap.
Is it socialisation? Some primal instinct?
In: Biology
I have read that factors that repulse or scare humans, are those that are not human-like. So the less human-like, the more we fear it because it is so alien.
For example: spiders with the eight legs. Millipedes and the like, with the billion legs. Snakes, which have no legs. Animals with huge fangs. Nocturnal animals like bats, who operate at night when humans are usually asleep and vulnerable.
It makes sense to me, in an intuitive way.
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