When I was little, my mom told me that moths would eat my clothes. She neglected to specify, "when they're in the closet." So I thought that moths had these huge teeth and would land on me and eat right through my clothes and bite me. Then someone told me that butterflies are just pretty moths... To this day, I am terrified of both moths and butterflies.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- My Nana told me that moths lay eggs in your hair. I still hate moths to this day.— Paula
- I used to think that since caterpillars become butterflies, earth worms must become moths.— Moth Man
- i used to think that moths were travelling to different worlds when they circled the lights— Amanda
- I used to believe that moths were a species of bats that only ate the tag on the inside of your shirt— Bob the Baby
- I used to believe that moths circled lights at night trying to find a way out of the world!— Diane D.
- I used to believe that butterflies would eat your nose.— Kate G.