my friend once told me that red ants actually eat flesh
i'd believed it and thought that they were eating bits of me from the bites i'd received from the beastly things
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- Thank you to the person who said that red ants don't eat flesh. I always thought they did! — Lola***Rose
- When I was young, I thought that rice was actually ants eggs! Didn't stop me from eating it though (: -@— Doh!
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- My daughter believed that as bees made honey, ants must make marmite.— Linda
- In primary school, a whole bunch of kids including me believed that watermelon seeds contained ants. — Caff
- When I was little my mother told me that the chocolate sprinkles you put on ice-cream were ants.Anon