Anyone else play with bugs as a kid?

[AUFred]

When I was a kid we played outside all the time and insects can be quite entertaining.
I was reminded of being a kid and playing with bugs when I saw a RolyPoly crawlin across the carpet in my office. I put him outside.

 

[Thornless]

I used to catch snakes,ladybugs, grasshoppers, spiders, and worms... i'd take the legs off the grasshoppers and let my cat eat them... and my Dad would light the spiders on fire... they pop like firecrackers.

That count?

 

[AUFred]

I used to catch snakes,ladybugs, grasshoppers, spiders, and worms... i'd take the legs off the grasshoppers and let my cat eat them... and my Dad would light the spiders on fire... they pop like firecrackers.

That count?

I fished with crickets, grasshoppers & worms. We did salt some snails which was our most cruel acts.

 

[Siphorous]

I used to catch daddy long legs and I'd love to let ladybirds crawl all over my hands.

 

[Dana]

no...

 

[AUFred]

When I was a kid there was a certain type beetle which would burrow into the sand & stay. If you put a broomstraw in the indention & twirl it around the beetle would climb up the broomstraw.

 

[AUFred]

We also use to catch fireflies in a jar at night.
Catching bees during the day in a jar was something else we did.
We always let them go after a while.

 

[pinkporridge]

i played with bugs.. but now im terrified of them..

 

[Lord Stanley]

local kids used to pay my sister to eat worms

 

[pinkporridge]

i ate a dried up worm 1s

 

[keano]

I used to try and catch bee's and stuff like that but that had altiria motives....

 

[Staci]

cathing lighting bugs in a jar....so pretty

ladybugs, roly polys, long leg

snails and slugs and i too put salt on em

 

[Tim]

We used to catch those large carpenter bees and tie a piece of thread around their leg and fly them like kites.

 

[AUFred]

I remember some beetles would hiss at you if you made them mad. That was funny too.

 

[jassilem]

I have always hated bugs....

And now I have a little boy... oh heaven.. I am in trouble me thinks...

 

[BlackCherry]

I played with bugs when I was a kid...fireflies and butterflies were my favorites. I also used to play with frogs, toads, salamanders, and snakes...probably why I'm not really afraid of bugs and creepy crawlies...except for millipedes (or million leggers as we sometimes call 'em) that crawl up the drains...those are the only ones that really ook me out.

 

[AUFred]

I am not a snake person but I have handled a few.

 

[pinkporridge]

I am not a snake person but I have handled a few.

i have a western hog nose.. hes sooo cute

 

[Margene]

When I was a kid we played outside all the time and insects can be quite entertaining.
I was reminded of being a kid and playing with bugs when I saw a RolyPoly crawlin across the carpet in my office. I put him outside.

Yes I did. RolyPolies, catepillars, worms something we called tomato bugs. They were a kind of green catepillar with a thorn on the tail end. I never actually touched them, just used whatever was at hand to scoop them up.

I learned the hard way about red ants when I quite young.

We would go on bug hunts, upturning everything that looked like it could harbor bugs!

Basically if it crawled, I was interested, including toads, frogs, salamanders and snakes, though they were rare where I lived.