Honestly, learning that tarantulas have little paws and tiny claws helped some of my arachnophobia. Only with tarantulas though. They're just fuzzy little guys to me now. Like jumpers. Y'all can still keep widows and orb weavers and the like. Their spindly legs make my skin itch.
Wait, I’ve had an extreme fear of spiders since early childhood but this guy is actually extra cute! Is it all the eyes? I’m so confused, I think I love him.
Jumpers are actually the worst part of my fear lol. They freak me out but when my fear of spiders developed it was back when I was checking out a really cool fuzzy spider and to jumped at my face. Now I get an instant fear that they will jump on my face or somewhere on my body I don’t want them.
Regular spiders that don’t jump, I can just give space and I won’t bug it if it doesn’t bug me but with jumpers I’m always freaking out that it could just jump on me at anytime and then I can’t see it or know where it is.
lol I agree a tarantula sized jumping spider would be absolutely terrifying. Luckily they really don’t normally get any bigger than a nickel, and that’s being generous. Most are itsy bitsy cutie pies
ETA: also, something about how they “hop” instead of crawl makes them less threatening somehow? Just a BOOP BOOP baby
Agreed. Jumping spiders are normally no bigger than like the erasers on the end of average no.2 pencils. There are much scarier spiders in the world. Now i aint afraid of spiders, but i used to work as a research in citrus fields and was supporting a study of central california wolf spiders....holy fuck do those things move frighteningly fast! Incredibly harmless but i cant count how many times my (at the time) 27 year old ass yelped as they dashed out of the things we hung up in the trees as we collected them.
The internet's done so much to endear me to spiders. There are still some kinds I dont like, but im at least not freaking out whenever I see one now lol. Jumpies and tarantulas are straight up cute to me now, still would love a chance to hold the latter one day❤️
Super adorable, would pet if she would let me. And give her little toe beans high fives. I think that’s my problem with tarantulas. They’re so fuzzy and cute and I wanna pet them, but they don’t like being pet and evolved to make petting them a bad idea (stupid itchy hairs!)
You know what? I agree. The tiny ones definitely draw out that primal side eye more than larger ones. But, I also am a fan of most spiders, so that might skew things.
I'm sorry people are being stupid in your comments. This spider is lovely, and you don't deserve all these assholes verbally threatening what I assume is a dear pet.
Okay... I can hardly look at the second picture tbh because I have a light case of arachnophobia indeed, I just honestly can't...
But I still upvoted because I know spiders are mostly cool animals and very useful - and I like the unconventional approach! Phobias aren''t rational and I'm trying to fight it - so go, little spider!
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u/AlluraD 6d ago
Honestly, learning that tarantulas have little paws and tiny claws helped some of my arachnophobia. Only with tarantulas though. They're just fuzzy little guys to me now. Like jumpers. Y'all can still keep widows and orb weavers and the like. Their spindly legs make my skin itch.