You know it’s Fall when you intercept a Yellow Woolly Bear Caterpillar! It is now time to carve a pumpkin 🎃 | Reed Timmer Extreme Meteorologist

Unlike your typical meteorologist, however, this "forecaster" crawls on the ground, has six legs and sports fuzzy brown and black bands. Would you believe the woolly bear caterpillar? | AccuWeather

Have you seen any Wooly Bear Caterpillars outside lately? We've noticed them too! Wooly Bear Caterpillars are a common sight in autumn throughout the Midwest and New England states. These fuzzy creatures host on Asters, Sunflowers, Elms, and Maples, and go through metamorphosis to turn into Isabella Tiger Moths. Folklore says that you can tell how harsh the upcoming winter will be. A short black band indicates a mild winter, and a long black band indicates a harsh winter. Even though this is wid

The Isabella tiger moth (Pyrrharctia Isabella) aka “woollybear” is native to North America and can be found throughout the US into Southern Canada. They have two generations per year and spend the winter frozen solid as caterpillars. They produce a substance called cryoprotectant that prevents the inside of their cells from freezing, allowing them to survive the winter and thaw out in the spring. They have a very generalist diet and feed on a wide variety of herbaceous plants and tree foliage bu