Yet another caterpillar active into early winter is the yellow-bear, the larva of the Virginian tiger moth (Spilosoma virginica). It looks like a pale woolly-bear, and thus a predictor of a mild ...

They are not always yellow; individuals range from nearly white to red-brown. This species is related to the banded woolly bear (below), but they are not banded and the adult moth is pure white ...

Take the woolly bear caterpillar, whose fuzziness often tempts ... Then one day a delicate yellow-orange Isabella tiger moth (Pyrrharctia isabella) emerges without warning. You’re not likely ...

All those woolly bears trekking about in late summer were looking for a place to build a hibernation cocoon. There they will spend the winter, emerging in spring as yellow and tan moths.

Woolly Bear Caterpillars have been spotted in Western New York over the past week. Weather folklore has long included the Woolly Bear Caterpillar (Pyrrharctia Isabella), commonly known as "Woolly ...

Woolly bear caterpillars became North America’s most recognizable caterpillar. Winter survivors pupate in the spring and emerge as moths with yellow-tan wings and sparse black dots. The moths are ...

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 ...

Often called woolly bear or salt marsh caterpillars ... They come in many colors, from black and brown to orange and yellow. All turn into moths—often quite beautiful ones—in late spring.

Reach him via Katie Rohman at [email protected]. A woolly bear caterpillar (larva of an Isabella tiger moth) is seen recently crossing a road. It is searching for a wintering site.