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Fear of Wasps

Clinical and Motivational Phenomena

The fear of wasps, or wasp stings, technically known as spheksophobia, is a relatively common specific phobia, similar to and often paired with the fear of bees, apiphobia or melissophobia; both are types of entomophobia, itself a category of the broader zoophobia.

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Emotional Phenomenon 1
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1. Wikipedia: Fear of wasps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_wasps
Quote, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_wasps
a relatively common type of specific phobia
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