The wooly bear catipillar (Winter Predictor)?

[dej(Jed)]

My wife says that the more black on them the worse winter will be. I have been finding many that are only brown, so I guess we won't be getting much winter here in Western, Pa?
 

[rrlund]

Same here,mostly black. Glad the corn's going in the crib as early as it is. Stalks might still be buried in snow before I can get'em baled.
 

[chevytaHOE5674]

The other day I saw one that was mostly brown and another that was mostly black within about 2 feet of one another. Guess they are confused about winter is going to do. haha
 

[Walt Davies]

I always heard that it is the amount of hair or what ever that stuff is on them. Thicker it is the colder the winter.
Walt
 

[RayP(MI)]

I was going to make the same observation - have seen them form all black to all brown, and many widths of stripes in between. I"m confused, but then I never did try to predict the wionter by their stripes.
 

[LJD]

I haven't seen a correct Wooly Bear caterpillar prediction in 20 years.
 

[donjr]

The BaltiMORONS (WHO ELSE?) have now come up with a fall replacement (sort of like Phil, the goundhog) in the form of a blue crab, named Baltimoron Bill, to predict and early winter. He is cut loose on a 'y' shaped board, and if he goes left, and up the 'y', therefore up the bay, winter is a ways off. If he goes right, and down the bay towards Virginia, it will be an early fall and winter. What kind of idjet came up with this one?????? Needless to say, the crusteacean went right.....
 

[Vernon in Ks]

Reminds me of a story.
Father and son were putting up hay in the valley. the father tells his son to go up the mountain and ask the old indian chief how bad the winter will be so they know how much hay will be needed.
the son returns and tells his father the old chief said a tough winter, so they put up more hay. The father tells his son to go back and get more details on the tough winter. The son returns and says the chief said a very bad winter, so they put up more hay. Finally the father decides to go himself and ask the chief. The chief tells him worst winter ever. the father asked how he knows this. The chief points to the valley and says "Farmer put up much hay"
 

[BIG RUH]

Haven't seen any yet.
 

[jackinok]

I cant believe any one would DOUBT a catipillar!! what this obviosly indicates is it will be a WINDY WINTER! both of them cant get on the same side if the stick so one is naturally colder.... every good hacksaw injun knows that.LOL
 

[Red1]

[jwmfarms]

Of course he went right. We don't have O'Malley for our Governor!
 

[4020guy]

Check out the Almanac for this past summer's weather across the mid western states and southern Ontario and Quebec. The Almanac is always accurate as far as weather goes, it just generally is half a continent off geographically....Ron
 

[omahagreg]

I have not seen any woolies this fall, but you reminded me of my Grandpa. He said 90 days after a heavy fog would be a snow storm. I wrote it on the calender one year,and he was right!
 

[BT in NE]

I have to agree with you. It seems that there is a prediction for anything one can encounter in nature. Very inaccurate though. I had a guy tell me this past week that there were a lot of long pods on locust trees, and asked if I knew what that meant. You should have seen the look on his face when I said, "Yeah, it means there are a lot of long pods on locust trees". BT