They also crawl about, sometimes moving very fast and in unexpected directions. Even Ann Landers, the newspaper columnist, responds to letters from entomophobics. They are fascinating creatures. In other words, education is the key to overcoming most fears, including entomophobia. If we learn more about insects, we may find that we no longer fear them.
All insects have six legs, but spiders have eight.
Spiders are arthropods, and are in the class, Arachnida, with mites, scorpions, and other arthropods with eight legs. People who are afraid of spiders have arachnophobia. Entomophobia in Our Daily Language Entomophobia may not be a disease that others can catch, like a cold, but it has spread by the words we sometimes use. When we see a dirty, unkept dog, we may call it a fleabag. When someone plays a trick on us, we say that was a lousy trick.