the best of creepy crawlies
When I was little I used to believe that a centipede walked like a tank- with a track of legs moving one after the other in a cycle.
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My friends and I all used to believe that any flying insect with any red colouring was a "blood sucker" and you weren't to let it land on you or it would suck your blood and you would die. Ladybirds were not blood suckers!
When I was very small I met some kid who piled stones into a rusty bucket and when he tipped them out there was a ladybird among them. He told me that was how to make ladybirds. I tried several times, over several weeks, in his absence but failed. Was genuinely gutted.
my mum told me that Bees had pointy bums and that was why they could sting you and yes I believed that for years until I told a boyfriend and he nearly wet himself laughing at me.
My cousin once gave me the impression that ants 'came from' sugar (what I think now she must have said was 'came for' sugar).
So I spent my childhood years thinking that sugar was actually ants eggs(!)
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That if you picked up worms, you would get warts.
After being told by my older borther, I used to believe that little moths crawl in your ears and eat your brains when you are asleep
My Nana told me that moths lay eggs in your hair. I still hate moths to this day.
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I read a book about worms and misread the word tape as tap. I then thought that taps had worms living in them and had to look up the tap before I turned it on.
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I used to think that if you went outside without your shoes on there were little bugs that would get into your feet, climb up your body and eat your brain!