I even found one that was all light tan (no clue what that is supposed to predict). I live out in the country and so far this year I have found all black ones (we’re all gonna die from snow and cold) to all brown ones (we might be hitting the beach instead of freezing to death). So is there any truth to the story or is it more myth? Scientists have studied the matter using more modern technology and have determined it’s just folklore. Woolly worms became hugely popular.įestivals are held in October in places like Banner Elk, North Carolina, and Vermilion, Ohio. He told a reporter friend at the New York Herald Tribune about his findings and a story went viral. Curran determined that the more black color, the more severe the winter. He determined that there might be some truth to the fuzzy, inch-long caterpillar’s forecasting prowess. Curran – the curator of the American Museum of Natural History in New York – spent several years catching and averaging the ratio of brown to red and comparing it to the winters. And folklore says they can predict the winter. Here in the south, they’re known to most as a “woolly worm.” They’re also called a “woolly bear.” Whatever you call them, they’re the larva for the Isabella tiger moth. Rusty brown, black, and fuzzy like wool, their direction of travel is the only way to tell their head from their rear. You see them this time of year, especially in rural areas, scampering across roads and trails.
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