Ostensibly exploiting Zubaydah's extreme entomophobia, interrogators confined Zubaydah Ahuja in a box with a caterpillar.

Eventually, when Ella goes to university to study psychology, she'll have an epiphany of her entomophobia, writing a paper on the possible connection between phobia of boys and terror of insects.

A 2002 justice department memo ruled that exploiting a captive's entomophobia (irrational fear of insects) did not constitute torture.

A Fear of insects or entomophobia, is surprisingly common.

McClelland has studied some of the more extreme forms of insect anxiety, including entomophobia, an irrational fear that can produce classic phobic reactions like panic attacks and flight.