If you see a banded woolly bear caterpillar inching along, winter is probably around the corner. Also called woolly worms, the fuzzy-looking insects are a familiar autumn sight — and their ...

The woolly bear caterpillar, also known as the fuzzy bear caterpillar or the woolly worm, has fuzzy bristles that are black on both ends with a band of orange in the middle. Weak and short La ...

The woolly bear caterpillar, one of autumn’s most recognizable crawling critters, might not be the tiny winter weather forecaster that folklore would have us believe. But that doesn’t mean ...

Legend holds that the length of a woolly bear caterpillar's color bands can be used to forecast how severe the winter weather will be. The myth dates back to colonial American folklore but was ...

Do woolly bear caterpillars forecast winter weather? Woolly bears (or woolly worms in the South) have a reputation for forecasting the coming winter weather, according to the Farmer's Almanac.

Although many people notice woolly bear caterpillars because of their furry appearance, tiger moths are fairly plain looking and are one of the species seen fluttering around porch lights in the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — One of the first sightings of a Woolly Bear Caterpillar in Western New York occurred Tuesday, and here's what its prediction is for this winter. The Woolly Bear Caterpillar ...

This is a woolly bear caterpillar. It has black-colored ends and a band of brown color in the middle. It turns into the Isabella Moth: Legend has it that you can look at a woolly-bear (sometimes ...

the most common and well-recognized woolly bear caterpillar is Pyrrharctia isabella, or the larval form of the Isabella tiger moth, says Marshall. According to the legend, the more black setae ...

The woolly bear caterpillar is also known as the fuzzy bear caterpillar or the woolly worm. The caterpillars have fuzzy bristles that are black on both ends with a band of orange in the middle.