animals: creepy crawlies

I used to believe…

up until a few years ago I had long held the belief that eating greenfly helped cure colds. It never worked. I still have about a cold a month, but it makes for a great tale at dinner parties!

Whenever we would squish spiders in the house my brother and I would flush them down the toilet and he always said to be careful when I sat down to go to the bathroom cuz they might be coming back up to get me. Sometimes at night when I wake up and go I think about that and it still gives me the creeps.

I was almost 9 when Star Trek's Wrath of Khan came out. Needless to say, that led to many nightmares and an intense fear of bugs getting into my ears, as they would make me go crazy. 20 years later, that's all I remember of the movie and the thought still gives me the creeps.

When I was about 4 I heard noises in my pillow i SWORE that flees were living in them. My mum told me it was just my head making vibrations. But when she we gone I was so concinvinced they were flees I tore open the pillow and put it under my sandpit.

When I was little, I was a huge fan of the Rugrats. My favorite episode was the one where Chuckie adopted a roly-poly bug and named it Melville. There were a lot of roly-polies in our backyard, and we used to collect them in jars, but until I was in about third grade I thought that this type of insect were actually called Melvilles.

I used to believe that, when I slept at night, bugs would crawl into my ears and stay there. It was such a strong phobia that I could not sleep without cotton balls in my ears. I am mostly over it but every now and then I need the cotton balls to feel safe enough to sleep.

I used to believe that aliens lived in the wharehouse of my house

When I was little I was always told not to step on any spiders,bugs were okay but not spiders.If you did it would rain the next day,an odd childhood belief I had but I am suprised that children today,and from different parts of the world believe this myth as well.

Having read Charlotte's Webb as a kid, I became petrified whenever my parents or brothers killed a spider that had been in my room. I would beg them not to kill them, but just to catch them in a jar and pop them out the window instead. This was because I firmly believed that as spiders have so many hundreds of babies, if one of them were killed in my room, all of their hundreds of brothers and sisters might come and 'get me' and I'd wake up in the middle of the night covered in the things!

I'm 29 now and still can't kill a spider - only chuck them out the house safely!

I used to belive that there was only one toad frog in the whole world. His name was toadder, i would catch him in the morning and let him loode in the evening. I cryed for days when i discovered more than one frog.

When i was about five, i though that when you got bitten on your neck (by a gnat and mosquito) you would die........man was i wrong!!

I used to think that the praying mantis was related to the katydid!

i used 2 bleve that dragonfies and ladybugs were related and at night time they all came together and flew into space so they could see the whole world and they would see who was being naughty and they would eat all the naughty kids

I used to beleive that if you slept on your side a spider would come down from your ceiling and creep in your ear. Then it would lay eggs inside your cheek and then your cheek would explode
when the spiders hatched.

I thought that dungeness crabs lived in dungeons!

When i was about 8 or 9 i used to think that u got a fine for steppign on a praying mantus because the cops had a little camera in the bug and thats how you got caught i was young i didnt know....hehehe