When I was younger I used to believe that termites were invisible and about 2 feet tall. They would climb all over the houses to eat the wood. This was from watching those scary pest control commercials.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- my friend used to think a SWAT team was pest control.— wacko zacho
- When I was very young, I believed that houses were carved out of one gigantic block of wood.— tinmanjones
- i used to think water towers were houses for really tall people. I thought they had big heads to.— Alyssa
- My dad thought robin feet were made out of wood because they look like twigs.— Molly
- I used to believe that when you are 90 years old, you are also 90 feet tall.Anon
- When I was little, I never ate pesto sauce because I thought if you ate it, it meant you were a pest.Anon