Wide Or Narrow

Right there in the middle of the road was a woolly bear caterpillar. Not a particularly smart place to take an afternoon stroll but the weather was pleasant, nary a wind was blowing, and the rain was waiting for another day. The woolly bear caught my attention because his front black section was so much wider than his back black section. I figured it had to mean something so I went surfing to see what it meant.
According to an article in The Farmers Almanac

The banded woolly bear, also known as the woolly worm caterpillar, is one of the “signs of nature” to watch to foretell the winter weather to come (he’s #18 on our list of  20 signs of a hard winter). According to folklore, if the caterpillar’s orange band is narrow, the winter will be snowy; conversely, a wide band means a mild winter. And fuzzier-than-normal woolly bear caterpillars are said to mean that winter will be very cold.

Well that didn’t tell me anything at all. It seems that the middle orange bands are always the same width, or at least that is my perception. And they don’t seem to be fuzzier or less fuzzy, just fuzzy every year.
I think there should be more studies…