Why We Shouldn't Be Afraid of Spiders I Wild to Know

Hey friends, so what’s going to be your reaction next time you see a spider? Do you think they deserve a second chance? 🕷🖤 Here's another misunderstood species of the animal world: Cassowary, aka the dinosaur-bird: https://youtu.be/8YFpb9mKCmo

One morning I woke up and found a jumping spider on the wall near my bed. Upon a closer look, I noticed it had a freaking MOSQUITO in its mouth. Since then I have made a peace agreement with spiders!

The chicken held up to the wall to eat the spider was hilarious!

I work in the Bug's Alive exhibit at Melbourne Museum. It always amazes me at how little people know about and let alone understand arthropods.

When me and my kids find bold jumper spiders hanging around inside or outside our house we let them drink drops of water from our hands. It’s a really cool experience for anyone willing to try.

Honestly I hope I can lose my fear of spiders some day, I do find them to be beautiful and sometimes cute from a distance so that's a good starting point. Even the dangerous ones are no different from most other dangerous animals, where they will leave you alone for the most part as long as you leave them be and show them due respect. Like I know in my head that they're mostly harmless, even beneficial, but I have a very visceral reaction to them that's hard to shake.

I genuinely really love spiders! Really interesting to learn about and i find their uniqueness really intriguing as well. Plus, they are useful and get rid of really annoying things like flies or mosquitoes!

Used to play spider fighting those days. Cruel, when I think back

That blowtorch dude burning his house down over a spider lmao

I think it makes perfect sense that there are not as many sensational anti-spider news stories in Australia. If you are in actual risk of being bitten by a toxic spider, the article "Spiders have killed a tourist." is way less helpful than the article "Safety measures to avoid toxic spiders." or "These 10 household tips can help you if you have an aching spider bite." And since you grow up with this natural risk, these articles are more likely children's books. Being raised that way would also mean you could spot sensationalist articles way more easily, because they lack the knowlegde common to you.

It's very telling that even Spiderman is not enough to mitigate our irrational fear of spiders.

I’m laying on the couch of my living room right now because there’s a huge spider in my room and I literally cannot stand to sleep there, so I’ve been watching this kind of videos for the past hour to calm down- just felt like sharing this lol

I mean there is of course nothing wrong with being cautious around spiders, especially if you don't know if it's a species that could be venomous. Really though any that do bit is just doing so out of defense considering we humans are way bigger and can viewed to them as potential predators.

I kinda like spiders, because they eat mosquitoes and flies which I hate about as passionately as many people hate spiders. I do not feel empathy towards them in the way I feel empathy towards mammals, just because they are so different than me.

As someone suffering from arachnophobia, I really enjoyed this video. Made me appreciate what spiders actually do for us, humans. And then I visited the nearest spider exhibition and even held a female tarantula! She was kinda cute, and allowed me to pet her.

great info! vid was a bit over-produced for my taste, but awesome info and definitely engaging

jumping Spiders are my favorite arthropods. they clean your house and look super cute.

Now I need a cute chicken in my home named Vulture.😂

Thank you Terra Mater for shedding light and telling the true facts, this channel never disappoints. I will say the movie Arachnophobia scared the hell out of me when I was lil. Now I just let spiders be and do their thing.

"I come in peace... to nest in the safety of your ears!" LOLs