Dan Lauwers, R-Brockway Township, introduced Senate Bill 937 to designate the Isabella tiger moth as the state’s official insect. The moth is the adult stage of the woolly bear caterpillar ...

‘‘The woolly bear caterpillar (or, more precisely, the Isabella tiger moth) is a great example of insect strategies for cold and has become fairly well-known in the literature,’’ emailed ...

York County (WHTM)– It wasn’t exactly something you’d expect to find during the very last weekend of the year, and yet there it was. Around 10 a.m. on the morning of December 29, a large ...

As a kid, I knew them as plain old willy worms. Woolly bear caterpillars simply are the larval stage of Isabella tiger moths. The moth larvae emerge from eggs in the fall as caterpillars and remain in ...

Whether you believe the woolly winter forecast or not, the caterpillars will hibernate over the winter and in spring will turn into Isabella Tiger Moths, their forecasting days behind them.

These recognizable caterpillars will freeze solid this winter and then will emerge in the spring as pretty moths. Fuzzy woolly bear caterpillars are the larvae of the Isabella tiger moth, which ...

Caterpillar and adult Isabella tiger moth. In Vermilion, Ohio, on the shores of Lake Erie west of Cleveland, the Woollybear Festival (spelled as one word) happens each fall. The 52nd annual ...

The brown and black caterpillars are prevalent in Iowa ... a cocoon and emerge a few weeks later as an Alexandra or Isabella tiger moth.

The moths are named either wooly bear caterpillar moth, banded woollybear moth, or Isabella tiger moth. There is one forecast you can count on, however: when you see woolly worms in the fall, winter ...

One of the fascinating phenomena of autumn is the annual migration. This is mostly seen with birds that either spend the warm season with us or those passing through our region after breeding ...

Each fuzzy, 1½ inch caterpillar becomes an Isabella Tiger Moth. After wintering in its chosen spot, the caterpillar awakens on a warm spring day and continues to feed. Soon it forms a cocoon and ...