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North Iowa Outdoors: Can Caterpillars Predict Winters Wrath?
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North Iowa Outdoors: Can Caterpillars Predict Winters Wrath?
A central Iowa entomologist says there may actually be some science behind the folklore about how the thickness of a wooly bear caterpillar’s stripes can help predict the severity of the winter ahead. Ginny Mitchell, of Boone, says a fellow entomologist in New York state studied the fuzzy creatures in the 1940s. https://kiow.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2026/10/mkwool1.mp3 The black-and-brown caterpillars are prevalent in Iowa right now as th…
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