What is a Banana Spider? A kind of spider that is striped, black and yellow.
Is it dangerous? Yes, very very poisonous. And dangerous!
How did you first learn about a banana spider? I saw it, a little tiny spider, striped black and yellow.
Are you afraid of a banana spider? YES! We are afraid of them.
Where are they from? They are from the jungle.
Do we have them in Idaho? No, of course not. I am sure that we don't.
What was on the slide today? A banana spider.
How did it get here? It walked and then sleeped walked and then sleeped walked and then sleeped...
How many days would it take for a banana spider to travel like that to Idaho? Hundreds.
My daughters have an irrational fear of this:
Do you have an irrational fear?
Post Edit: My sister in law informed me that there are two kinds of spiders that can be called Banana spiders... the one above is pretty harmless.
The one below....
It wants to hunt you down and eat you.
Which one are my girls actually afraid of?
I don't know...
but I don't think I'm going talk to them about it and let them choose.
Post Edit: My sister in law informed me that there are two kinds of spiders that can be called Banana spiders... the one above is pretty harmless.
The one below....
It wants to hunt you down and eat you.
Which one are my girls actually afraid of?
I don't know...
but I don't think I'm going talk to them about it and let them choose.
So...are they afraid of the spider in the picture-which is not poisonous-or of the Brazilian Wandering Spider, also called a banana spider, which is extremenly poisonous but not yellow and nowhere near as big?
ReplyDeleteAs for irrational fears-I sympathize. Mine is of ants, in my house. Scharae's is of bees and Keira's is of...well, basically anything she could possibly think of maybe in a million years happening, but nothing that might actually really happen. Just the far fetched ones.
We have those here in the South. They're huge!
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