File under: Things we wouldn't get to do if we had a Big Farm. Rescuing woolly worms. A photo from late winter/early spring that I meant to post back then but lost track of. 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.
2 comments:
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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