The same if the brown bands on woolly bears are especially narrow, or if you happened to see red spots on your Thanksgiving turkey breastbone.
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Squirrel tails are telling us to get ready for a snowy winter, after all, and so are the stripes on the woolly bear caterpillars.
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True woolly bears are P . isabella, the larval form of the isabella tiger moth, and being banded is part of their species'identity.
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But the creature most ingrained in weather folklore this time of year is the woolly worm, an inch-long fuzzy caterpillar also called the woolly bear.
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Woolly bear caterpillar larva of the Isabella tiger moth, " Pyrrharctia isabella " is celebrated in the annual Woollybear Festival of the American Great Lakes.
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Some people seek answers to that question by consulting the coloring of a woolly bear caterpillar; others watch to see how diligent the squirrels are in collecting nuts.
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The "'banded woolly bear "'larva emerges from the egg in the fall and overwinters in its caterpillar form, when it freezes solid.
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The setae of the Woolly Bear caterpillar do not inject venom and are not urticant they do not typically cause irritation, injury, inflammation, or swelling.
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The festival celebrates the supposed weather-predicting abilities of the woolly worm, also called " woolly bear " which is a caterpillar or larvae of the Isabella tiger moth.
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It is believed that if a Woolly Bear caterpillar's brown stripe is thick, the winter weather will be mild and if the brown stripe is narrow, the winter will be severe.
