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Hey, all of you Stearns Mill Pond denizens and users, what have YOU seen on the pond or brook? Contribute your info - what great sightings, what birds, what animals, what sad things, what changes (good and bad), what wonderful moments have there been? Let's share what we know and love about our pond.
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Thursday, September 26, 2013

WOOLLY BEAR CATERPILLARS

Recognize this little guy?

 Yup, a wooly bear caterpillar.  In the spring, it will turn into an Isabella Tiger Moth.  On my walk with Blake on Monday, I was seeing them all over the road (most were rather flatter than this one - ewww...).  Wednesday, I had to look hard to find this one intact in order to take its picture (I think it was dead, though I didn't check).  

 I wondered about the weather prediction myth around the woolly bears so I checked a couple of websites.  (If the brown band is large, over a third of the caterpillar's body, the winter would be mild.)  I thought the Old Farmer's Almanac website,
http://www.almanac.com/content/predicting-winter-weather-woolly-bear-caterpillars 
had the best and most interesting description, of the myth, the origin and the facts, and of course, OFA would be interested in things that forecast the weather!  Check it out.  

OH... and the website said that they are crossing the roads to find over-wintering habitat under bark and in crevices in rocks and logs.
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