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O Halloween, Arachnophobia, Entomophobia, and Why Insects Exist

October 30, 2014 Paul Ross, U.S. Forest Service

They squirm, crawl, scurry and swarm … and they’re all around us. More than 900,000 species of insects and arachnids are found around the world, and some people would rather not come into contact with even one of the often misunderstood critters. The fear for me came when I was 7 years old during...

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