Fri 19 Feb 2010
Crickets gain fear of spiders based on mothers experience
Posted by Arizona Pest Control Company under Check This Out
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Scientists believe that humans may be born with a fear of spiders and snakes. Researchers tested their theory by placing a pregnant cricket in a small tank with a wolf spider with waxed fangs. (So the spider couldn’t harm the cricket) What they found was crickets whose mother had been exposed to a spider were 113 percent more likely to seek shelter and hide from the spider. Recent studies on humans have also hinted at the same results. Anthropologist Lynn Isbell of the University of California believes our fear of snakes go way, way back and contributed to the evolution of relatively good vision. To read the full article on MSNBC click here.

February 19th, 2010 at 11:25 am
I hate and always have, my Mom not a big fan either.