In the cold Arctic regions where the summers are short, it can take up to 14 years for the woolly bears in that climate to develop into a moth. They are so tough that they have been known to ...

Ask a Master Gardener — Woolly bears - Part of the tiger moth family. ... Maybe you have noticed our banded woolly bears diligently working their way across the road or through your flower bed.

RICHMOND -- We never see the Isabella tiger moth, an orangey-yellow creature whose range extends into the Arctic. But she's here, two inches small. She apparently had an astounding egg production this ...

Come spring, they’ll awake ravenous, ready to devour fresh leaves before spinning a cocoon with their long bristly hairs and reemerging as adult moths in late May. Woolly bears are particularly ...

Can woolly bear caterpillars predict how cold the winter will be? Updated: Nov. 22, 2016, 1:00 p.m. ... Although the adults are sometimes called woolly bear moths, ...

The giant leopard moth has a wing span of 2.25 to 3.6 inches, according to the University of Florida.. Adults are white with hollow black (or sometimes iridescent blue) spots on the thorax and ...

A woolly-bear is the immature stage of the Isabella tiger moth (Pyrrharctia isabella). The moth is quite attractive: creamy-yellow and burnt-orange, and sparsely peppered with black dots.

All those woolly bears trekking about in late summer were looking for a place to build a hibernation cocoon. There they will spend the winter, emerging in spring as yellow and tan moths.