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Article: SUMMER MONTHS ARE TIME FOR SNAKES TO GET SOME SUN
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- The Beacon News - Aurora (IL)
- Article date:
- August 14, 1998
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Chris Cudworth -- Summer is definitely the season for snakes in Illinois.
As creatures that crave warmth from the sun, snakes are reptiles that need sunlight to warm their bodies and are most active from June through September.
People who fear snakes wish there weren't a good season for snakes.
The fear of snakes is known by no less than four terms -- ophidiophobia, ophiophobia, ophiciophobia and herpetophobia.
The phenomenon of the fear of snakes is a very real one.
The sight of a crawling snake engenders panic in some people, resulting in a state of physical rigidity and morbidity complicated by emotions and stress.
Conjecturally, some have related this response to Biblical serpents ...