#the bug fearmongering is actually the worst thing ever

[ex-vespidae]

look i get that people are scared of spiders but guess what most spiders will literally not hurt you at all. and actually most tarantulas have venom which is WEAKER than a bee sting

A fucking BEE will hurt you more than a tarantula would.

god spider hatred is worse now actually with everyone going crazy over the new spider-verse movie. like. you realise all of those spider-people r basically part spider right RIGHT

its so fucking annoying. spiders are some of the most hated animals ever and they don't do anything! house spiders will chill and eat pests if you allow them to do so. regular spiders, like every animal, are vital to the ecosystem they live in.

honestly the fear of spiders nowadays feels like it was a fear campaign done so many years ago that worked and its never changed since

and its not only spiders that get this treatment, wasps do to! actually almost every arthropod (except maybe crustaceans and bees and butterflies ) get treated like absolute shit and im actually so done with it.

There is a way to try and ease that fear that gets imbedded into brain when you're growing up. Or at least it worked for me.

Play games with bugs in them, consume media where bugs aren't actively made out to be horrible creatures. For example, Hollow Knight is a game fully about bugs. The game makes you feel for the bug characters in the game and yeah sure Hollow Knight doesn't have the most accurate bug designs but its a start. Or maybe Bug Fables which has more accurate bug designs and yeah maybe has a spider as a bad guy but its more of a animal compared to most insects (and the wizard is actually a spider that doesn't harm you so yeah). Or I don't know be like me who gets attached to Queen Sectonia from KTDX who, while she is a villain, is probably one of the most sympathetic ones in Kirby

and actually the implications of some things there subtly implies wasps are beautiful which yeah they are! spiders r also pretty tho as well. hmrmr

another thing you can do is look at the cuter bugs before going into the more 'scary' ones (scary in quotations since thats how society sees them, but not me) for example, instead of going straight into the bigger tarantulas start with jumping spiders which are very small and cute and colourful, or just follow a bug account, there's plenty of photographers that take macro photos and post them online, allowing you to get closer to bugs.

there's probably different ways for everyone but I wish you people all the best in discovering the beauty of arachnids and insects and arthropods in general. also by the way you are not an animal lover if you don't like arthropods. insects make up i think its more than 80% of animal species? not sure on that part but i know its a big number. are you really an animal lover if you hate most animals that exist.

Also. To those people who post things like "I want to squish it" or something similar on bug posts. Please stop. Please leave and never come back. People who share bugs most of the time do not want to fucking hear it. Keep it to yourself and maybe think why you feel that way. Is it truly a phobia or something that you get conditioned into believing.