In addition, the woolly bear caterpillar has 13 segments to its body, which traditional forecasters say correspond to the 13 weeks of winter. If the tail end is dark, the end of winter will be cold.
If the head end of the caterpillar is dark, the beginning of winter will be severe. The position of the longest dark bands supposedly indicates which part of winter will be coldest or hardest. Similarly, the wider the middle brown band is associated with a milder upcoming winter.
The longer the woolly bear's black bands, the longer, colder, snowier, and more severe the winter will be. Here's how it's explained on their site:Īccording to folklore, the amount of black on the woolly bear in autumn varies proportionately with the severity of the coming winter in the locality where the caterpillar is found. Even the National Weather Service has weighed in on the subject. And then I heard someone talking about how Woolly Bear Caterpillars can also help predict the severity of the upcoming winter. Mother Nature gets in on the action too.Ī while back, I posted a bit about using cricket chirps to tell what the temperature is. Or my grandmother was always ready with an old-fashioned saying like, "fog in the hollow, fair day to follow", and other awesome things like that. He said the darker the bottom, the worse the winter would be. For instance, my grandfather used to say that if you paid attention to the bottoms of clouds in August, that you could tell if it was going to be a big snow year.
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