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<blockquote data-quote="Entomo-logic" data-source="post: 148010" data-attributes="member: 4159"><p>At the zoo where I work we have free ranging Nephila madagascariensis that live in the trees and the rafters of the insectarium. After getting hate mail from several zoo patrons about being afraid of spiders we had to post signs alerting people to the spiders on the ceiling above them. Now we have a lot of people who yell and scream and throw tantrums in the hallway between the butterfly wing of the building and the "Insect side" where the spiders live. When people do get up the courage to enter they run with their hands over their head like they are in a hailstorm. This upsets me because kids see this and then once interested children immediately become scared and stay scared because their parents, grandparents, and/or older siblings are scared. This is bad but not as bad as when the people come back in to see the butterflies after the incident the children 9 times out of 10 are scared of butterflies too because of the message their elders have sent them. This is a troubling issue of uneducated people just perpetuating stereotypes on harmless, amazing, and very necessary creatures.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Entomo-logic, post: 148010, member: 4159"] At the zoo where I work we have free ranging Nephila madagascariensis that live in the trees and the rafters of the insectarium. After getting hate mail from several zoo patrons about being afraid of spiders we had to post signs alerting people to the spiders on the ceiling above them. Now we have a lot of people who yell and scream and throw tantrums in the hallway between the butterfly wing of the building and the "Insect side" where the spiders live. When people do get up the courage to enter they run with their hands over their head like they are in a hailstorm. This upsets me because kids see this and then once interested children immediately become scared and stay scared because their parents, grandparents, and/or older siblings are scared. This is bad but not as bad as when the people come back in to see the butterflies after the incident the children 9 times out of 10 are scared of butterflies too because of the message their elders have sent them. This is a troubling issue of uneducated people just perpetuating stereotypes on harmless, amazing, and very necessary creatures. [/QUOTE]
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