Want to know how bad this winter is expected to be? You could look at the long-term NOAA forecasts for Ohio, or to the meteorologists at the National Weather Service, with their fancy technology, like ...

Jackie Woodcock receives an important weather update from the most reputable of weathermen: a wooly bear caterpillar.

(WHTM) — You may have heard that the woolly bear caterpillar can ‘predict’ whether or not we have a mild or a harsh winter. But is that true? According to folklore, the amount of black on the woolly ...

Retired teacher Larry Weber, of Barnum, is the author of “Butterflies of the North Woods" and “Spiders of the North Woods," among other books. Reach him via Katie Rohman at [email protected]. A ...

Woolly bear caterpillars, often seen crawling on porches, are rumored to have something up their sleeves in terms of forecasting winter weather. Meteorologist Ryan Argenti from Hearst sister station ...

The weather has cooled off, but in the early part of October, spring violets were blooming in the front yard. And not far from them, a big burning bush (Euonymus alatus), a shrub originally from ...

QUAD CITIES, Iowa/Ill. (KWQC) - Folklore passed down from generation-to-generation has said that a woolly bear caterpillar, also known as a woolly worm, can predict whether or not we are going to have ...

The woolly bear caterpillar, one of autumn’s most recognizable crawling critters, might not be the tiny winter weather forecaster that folklore would have us believe. But that doesn’t mean these fuzzy ...

Weather forecasting folklore also involves insects. Like those of squirrels, the higher the nests of wasps and hornets, the ...

I came across this critter (above) on the walking path at the Alpine Athletic Center back in Oct. 2021. This is a woolly bear caterpillar. It has black-colored ends and a band of brown color in the ...

Do woolly bear caterpillars forecast winter weather? Woolly bears (or woolly worms in the South) have a reputation for forecasting the coming winter weather, according to the Farmer's Almanac. The ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — It’s furry. It’s fuzzy. It enjoys plants, and it can predict the upcoming winter. No, it’s not a groundhog. It’s a woolly bear caterpillar! Did you know the name “woolly bear ...