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

Woolly bears (or woolly worms in the South) have 13 segments and a reputation for forecasting winter weather based on the thickness of their black and brown bands. Wider brown bands on wooly bears are ...

Can those fuzzy, little caterpillars crawling up your wall or across your sidewalk really foretell how cold and snowy winter will be? Many swear the moth caterpillars can tell the future, but experts ...

MICHIGAN, USA — The woolly bear caterpillar: the fuzzy friend with a forecast. Legend has it that the length of the brown band on a woolly bear caterpillar can tell us about the severity of the winter ...

Can woolly bear caterpillars predict the upcoming winter season?Video above: Headlines from WGAL News 8 Today.Woolly bear caterpillars, also known as woolly worms, are part of folklore that suggests ...

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 weather has finally cooled off, but in the middle of this past week spring violets were blooming in the front yard. And not far away from them a big burning bush (Euonymus alatus), a shrub ...

Nature is amazingly symbiotic. There are plants that work as natural pest control in your yard or garden and critters that help keep your weeds in check. Case in point: the woolly bear caterpillar.

Despite the fact that it is in the mid-70’s in early November, winter is around the corner. What does winter have in store this year? Some like to think that Mother Nature gives clues in the plants ...

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 radar, historic data ...