Carterpillars predict a mild winter,Do you believe them?

[cycloneye]

HAGERSTOWN, Maryland (AP) -- If you believe the caterpillars, maybe people in the mid-Atlantic states won't need as much wool this winter.

Children collected about 20 woolly bear caterpillars for an annual contest in Hagerstown, Maryland, this week.

A judge says the brown and black crawlers were mostly brown. Tradition dictates that means a fairly mild winter.

The Hagerstown Town and Country Almanack sponsors the woolly bear inspection.

Its 209th edition makes it the nation's second-oldest continuously published periodical. The Old Farmer's Almanac is five years older.

Government forecasters say there's an equal chance of above- and below-normal temperatures in the region from December through March.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/02/caterp ... index.html


Do you believe the carterpillars?

[Suncat]

Here's what the woolly worm says about winter here:
http://woollyworm.com/

Read about Niko, the winner of the 28th Annual Running of the Worms!

For the folks around the Triangle area, the two woolly worms I found last month were almost completely black...very little brown.

[JQ Public]

I didn't know good ol' Jimmy was a Caterpiller

[Cookiely]

I've been picking hairy worms off the oleanders for the past week. The last time I remember seeing them, we had very cold temps, flurries, and rolling blackouts. We were living in a travel trailer at the time. It was like being inside a refridgerator. I hope I'm wrong because my mama and I just planted tomatos, collards, blackeye peas and put in a flower bed. The last few years it has been so warm that I feel like the jig is up and we are in for a cold winter.

[arkess7]

im 3 hours north of ya cookiely!!! ive picked a few half frozen ones from the frost we got here 2 weeks ago off my trash cans and etc............seems like they all got frost bitten!!! .....and I have still Yet to plant my collards............i was supposed to today but geezzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........something else always comes up!!!!

of course the humidity has come back some up here..........but im jealous..........yall planting TOMATOES down there in Tampa ..........WTH? I only do maters in the spring.......but my friend told me that you can grow them in the winter.......she lives in orlando................dont know........im just ready to plant some collards and maybe some peas cause ive never grown them................BTW......go to comm.forum and see the pics.of my garden this past year...........if ya liked to see my garden this summer and others!!!

sorry ......go to GARDEN PICS.......in the comm. forum!!!

[arkess7]

BTW ya know oleanders are poisonous...........i love the flowers but ...........you know im sure.........l would leave the catepillares alone.............they are doing "their thing"...

[Cookiely]

BTW ya know oleanders are poisonous...........i love the flowers but ...........you know im sure.........l would leave the catepillares alone.............they are doing "their thing"...

They can do their thing somewhere else but my Oleanders that I just planted several months ago. They can eat all the oak leaves they want.

[JETSTREAM BOB]

I'm with JQ out of Raleigh,a wolly worm out of Boone,NC said it was going to be one doozy of a winter.............COLD / SNOWY...............JSB