The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
I definitely have a fear of spiders. Don't we want to embrace our fears?
I'm absolutely terrified of spiders.
People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.
With all due respect to arachnophobes, I love spiders. Some might call me obsessed, but I've been studying spiders and spider silks for many years now and don't see an end in sight. There is simply too much to do.
Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.
You don't work with spiders very long before you start noticing how important silk is to their life and just how special that is for spiders.
We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because the world's blown up.
There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.