country bumpkin
When you were a kid did you like to play with bugs and insects? What bug or insect did you like to play with and what did you do with it?
When I was a kid my two aunts and I liked to take a twig and swirl it around in a doodlebug den while repeating, doodlebug doodlebug, come out come out, your house is on fire! When the doodlebug came up to the service we usually picked it up and let it call around on her hands.
There was a huge red ant bed near the end of the sidewalk in our front yard and my youngest aunt (she's only 4 years older than me) and I used to pick them up and hold them between our fingers and pretend like they were cars. We got stung a few times but rarely. We also liked to mess with the roly polys so they would roll up into a ball and then we would roll them on the cement to see who could roll the roly poly the furthest.
5 Answers
Tommyh
We had proper toys as kids.This is Australia.We don't have bugs out here.
| 8 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
clu
I like lightening bugs and butterflies! I once left a light on for a praying mantis so it would be easier for him to catch icky bugs!
I like to watch ants carry things to their home! They are very strong!
| 8 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
My mom had one of her husbands build her a very large insect house (approx 2 foot by 3 foot) that she kept a female and male Praying Mantis inside just long enough to watch them mate and observe the female biting off the males head after they finished mating. It was so neat to watch, but a little sad too.
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Bob/PKB
This question is "out there"! Bugs were never a source of playtime . As an adult, though, I love to see a big earthworm when I am planting flowers in my front yard.
| 8 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
Seeing an earthworm excites me too. They are a little creepy but not scary. Do you find yourself wanting to save them when it rains to much and they wash up in a water puddle?
One rainy day years ago, I was driving a not-quite-two-lane country road to a friend's. The road was absolutely littered with frogs for a half mile stretch. Weaving in an out of frogs, I was happy no car was coming from the opposite direction! I hate when I hit anyone while driving; that student at college included.
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terryfossil 1
