‘‘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 ...

Also, there are about 260 species of tiger moths (the adult of the woolly bear caterpillar) in North America, according to the NWS, and each species has slightly different color patterns and hair ...

Isabella tiger moths are found throughout the U.S., though not in Hawaii and Alaska. Even though the woolly bear caterpillar may give Punxsutawney Phil a run for his money, the best winter ...

After waking from a winter hibernation, the caterpillar will feed through spring, then cocoon and emerge as an Isabella Tiger Moth. Even though the woolly bear caterpillar may give Punxsutawney ...

Seeing these fuzzy brown-and-black caterpillars crawling across sidewalks ... spin a cocoon and eventually emerge as a tiger moth. As yellow waves of goldenrod wane, Minnesota roadsides and ...

We most commonly see woolly bear caterpillars in the fall ... they must be the larval stage of some kind of moth or butterfly. A few days ago, I spotted a medium-sized, tan-colored moth in ...