animals: creepy crawlies

This is about my brother. He loved snakes. One day his female snake had a litter of baby snakes. He ran into the house screaming and yelling and my mother thought he had an accident, but he just kept yelling "I'm a father, I'm a father"!

When I was about 3 or 4, I believed dragonflies wanted to kill me. I still remember one chasing me all over the backyard, and me barely making it into the house. Besides, they looked weird!

I am absolutely terrified of spiders and tarantulas. In fact, if I see a tarantula on the road I won't run it over or drive over it. I will cross to the other side of the road because I've always been convinced that it would attach itself to the bottom of my car and attack me when I get out. I will not use my own shoe to squash a spider. It may crawl through the bottom and bite my foot. That's why I always use someone else's shoe. I'm not willing to chance an arachnid's wrath.

I learned pretty young that bees die when they lose their stinger. I believed, however, that once the bee lost its stinger, it died temporarily. Then the worker bees came with a little gurney and hauled the dead bee off to the queen bee who gave it a new stinger and thus brought it back to life.

When I was little, I was playing with my brother and I saw an earwig crawl across the floor. My brother said it was called an earwig because it would go into your ear while you were sleeping and lay eggs. It freaked me out, I was so scared to go to sleep.

When I was really and I mean really little, I used to believe that Fireflies came from Dragonflies...Because dragons breathe fire. Also that dragonflies would guard the damselflies...

Hate to tell you, but last night my 17 year old daughter woke up screaming in the middle of the night that a bug was in her ear!. It was horrifying. She felt it crawling around. I advised her to tilt her head and jump up and down and out came an earwig! It was the most disgusting and frightening thing that ever happened to us! So it does happen!

I used to believe that ants had the smallest nipples in the world

When I was a kid I thought praying mantises were made out of grass

Wasp Chasing. My mean sister told me that if a wasp wouldn't leave me alone in the garden, all I had to do was run around the garden twice and into the house as fast as possible. We had a massive garden. So I did this several times-it worked! Of course it did, by a couple of metres it probably flew away/got bored while I was running my little legs off round and round the garden CONVINCED it was right behind me.

I used to be terrified of fire-flys because I believed they would burn if they landed on me.

I used to believe that all the spiders in the world lived in a big, big hole under the ground in a big mafia sort of thing. I believe the spiders were all soldiers and spys for this little federation and whenever something happened, the spiders crawled back and told their leader spider which is frikkin huge. I believed they were recruiting ants and other insects into the business of human hunting as well. It's a rather scary thought, all insects in the world under the earth ina big hole, using technology far beyond the human mind....

The sad thing is, I still believe this. >>

when i was little my dad told me that flies kicked. I still sort of believe him to this day, even though logic tells me its not true, he has never denied it.

I used to believe that if you managed to get enough "butterfly dust" off a butterfly's wings and covered yourself in it, you could fly!!

when i was little i had a swing set and i always before i got on the swing part i would flip it over because i thought a giant blak roach lived under there and was going to eat me otherwise.

When i was younger I found a bee on the window ledge, it wasn't moving much so I thought it must be dying. I didn't want it to die so I thought I'd try to revive it. I did this by scooping it up onto a leaf and putting it at the top of the garden on a rock with a big spoonful of honey next to it, thinking that it would eat the honey and feel better! When I came back to it later it was gone (probably eaten by a bird or somehitng), oblivious to the fact that I'd left a dying and virtually helpless creature in such an exposed place I was very pleased with myself for being so kind and helpful!