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I obviously wasn't suggesting you weren't aware of phobias, but if you're bothered by people "demonising" scary looking insects, you should know that's obviously driven by phobia of scary looking insects, and those phobias can't be reasoned away by saying the scary insect is harmless.
I'm not really sure what you mean by the demonisation of insects anyway. Despite being terrified of them, I'm still interested by them, and suspect people expressing shock at crazy looking insects are just doing the same.
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I'm obviously well aware of phobias like that, e.g. arachnophobia is a fairly common and recognised condition. What I mean is the sort of hysterical Internet reaction to whatever picture has gone 'viral'.
Demonisation of animals can also have serious ecological consequences, same as the sort of fetishisation that makes people believe ground rhino horn is an aphrodisiac, etc.