Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Friday, September 30, 2005
Woolly Bears
While walking at Ellanor C. Lawrence park this afternoon, I saw a woolly bear caterpillar which had the longest brown band I've ever seen. I didn't have the camera with me, so no photo to prove it. In fact, it didn't have any black on the back end at all - just the first 3 or 4 segments from the head were black and the rest brown. So, I jumped to the conclusion that we're going to have one horrible winter. But I had my folklore backwards - the less brown and more black, the worse the winter is supposed to be. And even though the experts tell us that there is absolutely nothing valid in this bit of folk wisdom, I'll take it as a sign that our upcoming winter will be mild. I think we deserve one.
I always like to see the woolly bear caterpillars in the fall, but the folks in Vermilion, Ohio are positively crazy about them (take that however you want to).
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