creepy crawlies

when i was little i thought that if u stepped on an ant, all the other ant friends would attack you in your sleep

Anon

When I was a child I used to believe that black ants were from God because they are harmless, and that fire ants were sent by the devil because they sting.

Ari

My brother and I would catch fireflies in old peanut butter jars, punch holes in the lids, and save them for the next day. When we got up the next morning, invariably the bugs would have "escaped", or so my mother told us. It wasn't until recently that my mother admitted letting them go after we went to bed. She has a heart of gold.

layla

When I was little I thought it rained worms because after a rainstorm, there were always lots of worms on the sidewalk.

vanessa

When I was little, I thought that cobwebs were made by corncobs. I don't know how a corncob could make a web, though.

TB Samurai

As a young child my grandmother told me not to pick up a praying mantis because it would spit in your eye and you would go blind. I am 38 years old and some students of mine brought in a praying mantis one day after recess and I just about lost my mind.

Michelle

When I was little I asked my mom "what babies were before they were babies". She said ants. For the next few years, whenever i saw people stepping on ants, i'd scream.

golem

When I was a kid I thought that bees could fly around the world in 4 seconds. I was so possitive of this fact that I told everyone I knew, and when told I was wrong I just thought they were ignorant. The sad thing is that I believed this for a really long time, and was quite dissapointed when I discovered the truth.

Ez

My mother told me that if you pick up an ant and turn him around he will wander around lost forever. I stopped playing with ants and believed this till well inmy adult life.

Prodgirl

i used to believe that bugs came out of canned bug spray

Anon

I used to believe that ants in an ant colony wore colonial style clothing because the only other colonies I knew of at the time were the American ones.

Anon

when i was younger i thought ants had tongues. i always pictured them sticking their tongues out at me.

i was an idiot

I used to believe that flea markets were a place people sold fleas, or the place was infested with fleas

Kelley

When I was little I ALWAYS slept on my side and pressed my ear into my pillow to protect my ear from earwigs crawling in it. On the other ear I placed a stuffed animal or covered my head with the blankets.

Jessica

A close friend of mine grew up thinking that crane flies were just male mosquitoes (and that all actual mosquitoes were thus the females). This was apparently a widespread misconception where she grew up!

Anon

I read a book about worms and misread the word tape as tap. I then thought that taps had worms living in them and had to look up the tap before I turned it on.

Pip

I used to believe that dung beetles were made out of poo!

zdvc

When I was about eight I used to think that if you touched bug juice (insect blood), you would turn into a bug. I didn't know what it looked like back then, so I was kinda paranoid about it and avoiding everything that even looked vaguely like it even if it was just spilled drink turned dark from fading into fabric on the furniture or something.

There's bug juice on my ceiling right now

Just this moment I learned that earwigs do not go into your ears, i'm twenty-four.

Sheila

mum told us that if you stepped on an ant you go to hell. Once i opened a jar of jam & realised an ant got decaptitated in the process that was feeding off the lid & was well scared.

pea