List of phobias in animals and other crawling creatures

A phobia is a persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid it, despite the awareness and reassurance that it is not dangerous.

Agrizoophobia is the fear of wild animals
Entomophobia or Insectophobia is the fear of insects
Herpetophobia is the fear of reptiles
Zoophobia is the fear of animals

Ants - Myrmecophobia
Bats - Chiroptophobia
Bees - Apiphobi or Melissophobia
Birds - Ornithophobia
Bulls - Taurophobia
Cats - Ailurophobia or Elurophobia
Chickens - Alektorophobia
Dogs - Cynophobia
Fish - Ichthyophobia
Frogs - Ranidaphobia
Horses - Equinophobia or Hippophobia
Mice - Musophobia or Muriphobia
Moths - Mottephobia
Sharks - Selachophobia
Shellfish - Ostraconophobia
Snakes - Ophidiophobia or Snakephobia
Spiders - Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia
Termites - Isopterophobia
Toads - Bufonophobia
Worms - Scoleciphobia

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