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Spiders and fear, what is it all about?

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You know that I’m not a big fan of spiders, maybe the reason I got into the pest control or bug business. Some researchers in the UK explained why we might be hard wired to fear them. “Why do spiders scare us so much?  Just for the record he states in his article that “a few spiders in the UK are poisonous” while in fact he should have said venomous.

 

The real point is how the toxin is delivered. Venom must be delivered through a bite, sting or puncture while a poison could be the entire body or parts of the body.

 

So don’t just pick up a bug if you don’t know what it is. Several bugs look nice but may contain some sneaky parts or secretions that might you sick.

50_Paper Wasp

 

 

 

 

So lets have a little test here – Paper wasp – Poisonous or Venomous?

Mice may be able to smell fear.

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All I can picture is that old belief of someone standing on a chair just screaming for their lives because a mouse is in the room. “Mice study suggests we can literally smell fear.”

Maybe a correlation can also be placed with dogs that don’t seem to like certain people. probestpestmanagementIMAG0287 Well not this dog above, Gracie loves everybody. Mice are proving and research is providing good data for the good of mankind.

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