creepy crawlies

i used to believe that when my feet fell asleep that i had gotten red ants in my shoes. so whenever my foot fell asleep i would run to my parents and tell them to take me to the doctor quick because i had ants crawling inside my feet!!!

Ali

My mum used to think that wasps made marmalade. it's perfectly reasonable, at their house they ate marmalade and honey, honey comes from, bees,and wasps must do something!

Anon

I used to believe a had an imaginary friend called Sprouty, it was a spider. Sprouty had a friend as well, a huge giant! These were my best friends and we went everywhere together. How we managed to get a giant in the bus I don't know!

Anon

Because I used to play Pitfall as a kid, I always thought that scorpians were about as big as small dogs. It wasn't until a class trip to Mexico when I was 17 that I found out that they were not quite that large.

Keyo

I used to believe that the leaves that move across the road when the wind blows them really had ants under them that carried the leaves and were hiding from people so they wouldn't get stepped on.

Dea

My brother, who was a year ahead of me in school and I thought at the time much smarter, told me when I was in about first or second grade that if you bit your tongue really hard, it would create an electric current through your body and if ants tried to bite you, it would kill them!! I only needed a couple of ant bites to disprove his theory!!

middle sis

when i was little i thought that locusts were alens. i went into my backyard one day and saw one on my playset and it was cumin out of its shell thing and it was all green and crap....i then ran inside yelling "ALIEN! ALIEN!" and my parents thought i was crazy until they saw wat i had seen lol

Molly

I also used to think if you stared at a mantis you would be paralyzed forever.

inma d

I used to think that moths spent the entire day flying towards the Sun, that's why they weren't seen in the day. Then at night, when the Sun went down, they flew back towards the Earth and that's why they were all gathered around people's security lights & stuff. To be honest I'm still not entirely convinced that that isn't actually the case. I'm 26 years old.

Rob G

I believed if you caught enough fireflies (or "lightning bugs" as we called them in the south), you could light the house with them instead of light bulbs.

Dixon

When I was little I use to think all the spiders would gang up on you if you killed a spider so I could never kill a spider.(I still can't kill a spider because one time when I did I had such a nightmare about it I will never forget.)

RJ iowa

I used to be obsessed with this book about insects called "Insect World" and would insist that my mother read parts of it to me every night. About half an hour later, I would run into my parents' room, imagining giant wasps, stagbeetles, and army ants had invaded my bed!

Hilary

Miller moth's would swarm around our porchlight on summer evenings. During the day they disappeared and I naturally assumed that they were all flying towards the sun, returning when the sun set and they flew back to the lights on the ground.

blizzo

I LOVE insects, spiders, slugs, worms, and invertebrates in general, always have. I think they're absolutely amazing creatures, I study them and I keep all kinds of them as pets (I have a baby madagascar hissing cockroach and I REALLY want a giant banana slug someday!) and have absolutely no fear of any "bug"...except for ticks. I, a future entomologist, can't handle one little bitty tick. Even dead ones make me shudder. Why? When I was very little I thought that they actually burrowed completely under your skin and would never, ever, EVER come out. Even though I know this is untrue, I still have such a severe phobia of them that I avoid going outside in the summer sometimes, I stay far away from dogs and cats that have been outdoors and I panic if I brush up against one little bush or tree!

And yet, I still think ticks are cute and interesting animals.

Jonathan Franz

my sister once tolled me that mosqueto bites were due to the fact that mosquetos made a hole in our body and had intered in it...so when i asked her if i hit the bit would it die...she said...for sure....so i kept hitting my self like a crazy child....later i knew she was bluffing

lol...i aint telling u that

When I was about 6 or 7, I was on a family vacation and our hotel room had those ceilings that look all bumpy and such. I aksed my sister what the bumps were, and she told me that inside of them there were tons and tons of gross bugs! And then told me that sometimes
the bumps break open and the bugs fall on people while they sleep!

Kelly

when i was about 4 i discovered a sow bug for the first time. i showed it to my mom and asked her what it was. she told me it was a sow bug, but i heard her say "salad bug". for the longest time i beleived that this was what they were called, and i thought that they lived in salads.

Anon

whenever i caught a ladybug i would always say the rhyme "ladybug, ladybug, fly away home. your house is on fire and your children are alone". i always wondered how all the ladybugs managed to catch their houses on fire...

damn pyro ladybugs!

When I was in third grade I lived at my grandparents house and when my grandma tucked me in at night she would say, "Don't let the bedbugs bite." I imagined a 4 foot long 2 foot tall white cockroach comming into my room and biting me. It was horrifying

David

When I was little I saw an American TV show with fishing in it. They were talking about different flies and mentioned wooly buggers. I asked what this was and my Dad said it meant sheep. I don't think he realised I took it at face value and was to continue using it for several years to come.

Anon