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Cure to arachnophobia welcome to
watchmojo.com one by one in this
installment with dispelling five myths
about spiders that bug is the most and
for the record spiders on insects so
that previous pun doesn’t have eight
legs to stand on how bad myth number
five daddy longlegs have the most
powerful venom this one might be a
little more obscure but it does seem to
be repeated fairly often online leading
many people to believe that these
spindly legged house invaders contain a
powerful poison but don’t possess the
fangs to inject it there’s something a
bit compelling about the smallest thing
being the most powerful like Will
Smith’s gun in men in black but it’s
simply not true in this case in fact
most creatures identified as daddy long
legs and not spiders at all the most
common are actually harvestman a type of
arachnid that has a single pair of eyes
and like spiders and contains absolutely
no venom what’s more the only similar
spiders you might find sella spiders
contain only a very mild toxin that can
cause nothing more than the slight
irritation like one of Will Smith’s kids
I want to be more of like a superhero
than a vampire you know you mean but
those are the two polarities my
personality myth number four
spiders are going to attack me
while you may be led to believe that
spiders are hell-bent on pouncing at you
it’s time to drop the broom and step off
the stool spiders are not inherently
aggressive this myth may come down to
humans irrational fear of creepy
crawlies which many study suggests is
simply a product of cultural relativism
rather than evolution by the way I think
I only wounded the spider it crawled off
into my bedroom wait
is that why you slept on the couch last
night yeah I slept spider specialist rod
Crawford claims that they’re actually
quite docile by nature and has only been
bitten a few times during as many years
of study instead spiders only bite
humans if they feel threatened so as the
old cliche goes they’re probably more
afraid of you than you are of them what
they killed it the shark of seeing lloyd
myth number three putting a spider
outside is more humane than killing it
you could have just stepped on it don’t
go taking the moral high ground with us
on this one while squashing these
unwanted guests may seem a little cruel
escorting them off the premises leads to
the exact same result though it’s
commonly believed that spiders inhabit
our homes to escape the cold the truth
is they’ve actually evolved to create an
indoor ecosystem as Crawford suggests
when taken outside they’re stripped not
only of their habitat but also their
source of nutrition in fact some spider
breeds are estimated to have been
domesticated over 2,000 years ago all
just don’t make a pear salad you could
even go as far as to suggest that
coexisting with spiders is beneficial to
us as they rid houses of common pests
such as roaches earwigs and ants hey
you’re on our turf man and man I’d cut
you I’ll cut you up so bad you’re gone
you’re gonna wish I know cut you up so
bad those are bad roaches I blame the
school so next time you grab the old
glass and sheet of paper remember you’re
just leading them to a different grave
let’s just learn to get along instead
myth number two spiders lay eggs under
people’s skin I’ve got you under my skin
sure they may look like Gieger s Korra’s
but don’t expect their babies to come
bursting out of you this myth could stem
from Nobel Prize winner Kerry Melissa’s
book dancing naked in the minefield in
which he suggests that a brown recluse
spider may scratch a hole into a human
and lay her eggs inside but there is
simply no scientific basis for this
the truth is spiders simply wouldn’t be
able to do such a thing as their egg
laying organ known as the RV positi–
does not possess any means of injecting
eggs at all those spiders could
technically lay them on the surface of
your skin there would be no benefit to
doing this instead they choose to lay
eggs in quieter less threatening areas
so all their beautiful disgusting
children are safely assured the gift of
life before inevitably swarming all over
your face while you sleep
speaking of which myth number one you
swallow spiders in your sleep supposedly
we all swallow a certain amount of
spiders per year this may perhaps be the
most widespread myth about spiders if
you fell for it
that’s reportedly all thanks to a social
experiment conducted by one lisa holt in
1993 in order to prove that humans are a
gullible bunch pulsing out a series of
factually incorrect emails including one
about swallowing spiders in your sleep
but wait
the BBC among others say that this Lisa
Holt’s person doesn’t even exist myth
within a myth anyone in truth spiders
don’t have the innate age to crawl down
your gullet to their demise as
highlighted before they’re often rather
reclusive and avoid confrontation with
larger creatures and as Rod Crawford
highlights there are no eyewitness
accounts of Spidy suicide so how many of
these myths did you believe this is what
Google searches want to know about
spiders do spiders actually have spidey
senses is it true that rain spiders in
Jamaica spiders group and by the way yes
spider rain is a thing
for more web slinging top tens and hair
whipping top fives published daily be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com rock
and roll
Cure to arachnophobia welcome to
watchmojo.com one by one in this
installment with dispelling five myths
about spiders that bug is the most and
for the record spiders on insects so
that previous pun doesn’t have eight
legs to stand on how bad myth number
five daddy longlegs have the most
powerful venom this one might be a
little more obscure but it does seem to
be repeated fairly often online leading
many people to believe that these
spindly legged house invaders contain a
powerful poison but don’t possess the
fangs to inject it there’s something a
bit compelling about the smallest thing
being the most powerful like Will
Smith’s gun in men in black but it’s
simply not true in this case in fact
most creatures identified as daddy long
legs and not spiders at all the most
common are actually harvestman a type of
arachnid that has a single pair of eyes
and like spiders and contains absolutely
no venom what’s more the only similar
spiders you might find sella spiders
contain only a very mild toxin that can
cause nothing more than the slight
irritation like one of Will Smith’s kids
I want to be more of like a superhero
than a vampire you know you mean but
those are the two polarities my
personality myth number four
spiders are going to attack me
while you may be led to believe that
spiders are hell-bent on pouncing at you
it’s time to drop the broom and step off
the stool spiders are not inherently
aggressive this myth may come down to
humans irrational fear of creepy
crawlies which many study suggests is
simply a product of cultural relativism
rather than evolution by the way I think
I only wounded the spider it crawled off
into my bedroom wait
is that why you slept on the couch last
night yeah I slept spider specialist rod
Crawford claims that they’re actually
quite docile by nature and has only been
bitten a few times during as many years
of study instead spiders only bite
humans if they feel threatened so as the
old cliche goes they’re probably more
afraid of you than you are of them what
they killed it the shark of seeing lloyd
myth number three putting a spider
outside is more humane than killing it
you could have just stepped on it don’t
go taking the moral high ground with us
on this one while squashing these
unwanted guests may seem a little cruel
escorting them off the premises leads to
the exact same result though it’s
commonly believed that spiders inhabit
our homes to escape the cold the truth
is they’ve actually evolved to create an
indoor ecosystem as Crawford suggests
when taken outside they’re stripped not
only of their habitat but also their
source of nutrition in fact some spider
breeds are estimated to have been
domesticated over 2,000 years ago all
just don’t make a pear salad you could
even go as far as to suggest that
coexisting with spiders is beneficial to
us as they rid houses of common pests
such as roaches earwigs and ants hey
you’re on our turf man and man I’d cut
you I’ll cut you up so bad you’re gone
you’re gonna wish I know cut you up so
bad those are bad roaches I blame the
school so next time you grab the old
glass and sheet of paper remember you’re
just leading them to a different grave
let’s just learn to get along instead
myth number two spiders lay eggs under
people’s skin I’ve got you under my skin
sure they may look like Gieger s Korra’s
but don’t expect their babies to come
bursting out of you this myth could stem
from Nobel Prize winner Kerry Melissa’s
book dancing naked in the minefield in
which he suggests that a brown recluse
spider may scratch a hole into a human
and lay her eggs inside but there is
simply no scientific basis for this
the truth is spiders simply wouldn’t be
able to do such a thing as their egg
laying organ known as the RV positi–
does not possess any means of injecting
eggs at all those spiders could
technically lay them on the surface of
your skin there would be no benefit to
doing this instead they choose to lay
eggs in quieter less threatening areas
so all their beautiful disgusting
children are safely assured the gift of
life before inevitably swarming all over
your face while you sleep
speaking of which myth number one you
swallow spiders in your sleep supposedly
we all swallow a certain amount of
spiders per year this may perhaps be the
most widespread myth about spiders if
you fell for it
that’s reportedly all thanks to a social
experiment conducted by one lisa holt in
1993 in order to prove that humans are a
gullible bunch pulsing out a series of
factually incorrect emails including one
about swallowing spiders in your sleep
but wait
the BBC among others say that this Lisa
Holt’s person doesn’t even exist myth
within a myth anyone in truth spiders
don’t have the innate age to crawl down
your gullet to their demise as
highlighted before they’re often rather
reclusive and avoid confrontation with
larger creatures and as Rod Crawford
highlights there are no eyewitness
accounts of Spidy suicide so how many of
these myths did you believe this is what
Google searches want to know about
spiders do spiders actually have spidey
senses is it true that rain spiders in
Jamaica spiders group and by the way yes
spider rain is a thing
for more web slinging top tens and hair
whipping top fives published daily be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com rock
and roll
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