While Picking Berries

I have gone nearly a year since seeing a woolly bear. Wooly bear caterpillars are one of those critters that you don’t really think about much, until you see one.

The Farmers Almanac states;

Every year, the wooly worms do indeed look different—and it depends on their region. So, if you come across a local woolly worm, observe the colors of the bands and what they foretell about your winter weather. Remember:

If the rusty band is wide, then it will be a mild winter. The more black there is, the more severe the winter.

In the last couple of years, I have spotted some yellow colored wooly bears with none of the typical orange body with black head and tail ends.

I have spent quite a lot of valuable time stretching out and attempting to measure the stripes on a woolly bear and am here to tell you that it is not as easy as it portends to be. Those silly worms do not like to be stretched out and do their best to curl into a ball rather than get measured (I do know how they feel, I’m the same way when told to step on the scale at the doctor office).

Seems like the all yellow variety are increasing in numbers since I have now seen three of them so far this year with only one with typical coloring for this area.