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

We most commonly see woolly bear caterpillars in the fall. I always smile when I see the first one. But have you ever thought about where they come from? I mean, since they are caterpillars, they must ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The woolly bear caterpillar, also known as the woolly worm, is a meteorological legend that has been used to predict the ...

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 ...

York County (WHTM)– It wasn’t exactly something you’d expect to find during the very last weekend of the year, and yet there it was. Around 10 a.m. on the morning of December 29, a large woolly bear ...