When I first arrived in Australia in 1973 and my parents and I made our first visit to Queensland's famous Gold Coast beaches, we were warned to "Watch out for the stinging bluebotles" as they can be fatal. - We spent the whole day anxiously looking upwards for huge flies with killer stings. It wasn't until later that we learned that the stinging bluebottles were actually a rather nasty kind of jellyfish!
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I use to believe that dragon flies and fire flies were fairies— lady eberly
- I used to believe that flies were called "bloody flies"!— Angelface
- I used to believe that jelly came from jellyfishAnon
- i believe that using gold give electric shock at the time of lightning.so i didnot wear gold when rain starts.— asi18
- I used to think bogies were made of dead flies which had flown up my nose.— Kate
- I used to belive that there was gold in my nose because pepole would always say that i was "diggin' for gold"!— addicted nose picker