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arachnophobia

[ə¦rak·nō′fōb·ē·ə]

(psychology)

Abnormal fear of spiders.

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Spider season's in full swing and I wonder how the arachnophobes among us - half of women and 10 per cent of men, because men are brave warriors without fear/don't admit they're actually cacking themselves (delete as you wish) - are managing not to have an epic meltdown on a daily basis.

Spider season's in full swing [...]

Just as we thought Natalie Appleton was the most phobic person in the world, in walked Vic Reeves, arachnophobe.

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But Matt Hudson, a former arachnophobe, is sceptical.

Fear not! help is at hand

Now the former arachnophobe owns her own tarantula called Pandora and she's happy for it to crawl all over her face.

10 ways to beat your fear of spiders; As UK is gripped by plague of eight-legged freaks..

She said: "Up until about the age of 21, I was a huge arachnophobe.

Zookeepers hand-rear threatened British web wonder

The news this week that the Government is considering raising university top-up fees is, therefore, about as welcome as a nest of spiders to an arachnophobe and just about as scary.

What will be the cost of raising university fees?

As the small box, complete with a miniature levered brush, is positioned at the end of a long handle, it is the ideal gadget for every arachnophobe to keep next to the bed.

Magnets exert a big pull at inventions show

AN ARACHNOPHOBE was so keen to help others that he signed up to a fundraising jungle trek - completely forgetting he suffers from a phobia of spiders.

I said I'd trek 2,260 miles through the jungle ...but there's an incy, wincy snag

For a confirmed arachnophobe, being rained on by countless species of spider could be enough to send her home a nervous wreck.

Jungle fever; A BBC documentary crew soon learned the laws of nature filming in the wilds of the Amazon Basin

I realise today that this is the last thing the die-hard arachnophobe wants to hear as they teeter on one leg on top of a chair screaming "Get it out of here

Karen Dunbar's column: Avoiding that summer buzz

He was either spider-friendly and didn't want to break the web or a terrified arachnophobe.

ARACHNOPOSTIA; Postman won't deliver letters because he's afraid of spider's web

As the new range of Spider Pen products from Crayola are in shops nationwide, they are launching a search for the nation's most affected arachnophobe.