They were everywhere! We tried to relocate them to alternate warm spots whenever our gardening activities exposed them.
Given the onslaught of insects we've been encountering lately that DON'T bring a smile to our faces, it seemed appropriate to remember the sweetness of discovering sleeping woolly worms in the garden.
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what is a wooly worm? They look like the cuddly gremlins before they get wet and turn mean and reptilian.
Hi speedsquare!
The woolly worm, or woolly bear, is the caterpillar stage of a moth - the Isabella tiger moth. Old-timers will predict the severity of an upcoming winter by woolly worm coloration in the fall - they hibernate over the winter tucked in warm dry places like straw bales or piles of leaves...
Thanks for reading...
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