(KOIN) — If you’re out and about on the trails this fall, you might run into a fuzzy black and orange fellow inching across your path. The woolly bear caterpillar, also known as the fuzzy bear ...

and woolly bear caterpillars turn into tiger moths, which are orange with black spots. Their fuzzy hairs, called setae, help the caterpillars survive winter, and will wrap around their bodies to ...

The giant leopard moth caterpillar has black spikes (which some have described as hairy, fuzzy, spiky, furry or even woolly). It has red or orange bands around its body, which are more easily seen ...

The woolly bear caterpillar, one of autumn’s most recognizable ... But that doesn’t mean these fuzzy-wuzzies don’t have a neat trick for when the temperatures finally fall.

And the woolly bear's forecasting ability is said to go further than that. If the black band of the caterpillar is wider by the head, the beginning of winter will be severe, according to Buckeye ...

(KOIN) — If you’re out and about on the trails this fall in the Pacific Northwest, you might run into a fuzzy black and orange fellow inching across your path. The woolly bear caterpillar is ...

As the seasons change and the world gets colder, most caterpillars in the United States and Canada will have already transformed into adults. But not woolly bears: Also called fuzzy wuzzies and ...

(WHTM) — You may have heard that the woolly bear ... that caterpillars shed their skins (also called molting) six times before reaching adult size, becoming less black and more red-orange.

Do woolly bear caterpillars forecast winter weather? Woolly bears (or woolly worms in the South) have a reputation for forecasting the coming winter weather, according to the Farmer's Almanac.