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Beattyville, Kentucky, begun 1988, called the Woolly Worm Festival, features food, vendors, live music, and a Woolly Worm Race in which people race the woollybear caterpillar up vertical strings. [14] [15] [16] Oil City, Pennsylvania, Woolley Bear Jamboree, begun in 2008, features Oil Valley Vick to predict the winter weather. [17]
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... As a caterpillar, it is known as the yellow woolly bear or yellow bear caterpillar. As an adult, ...
Gynaephora groenlandica, the Arctic woolly bear moth, is an erebid moth native to the High Arctic in the Canadian archipelago, Greenland and Wrangel Island in Russia. [2] [4] It is known for its slow rate of development, as its full caterpillar life cycle may extend up to 7 years, with moulting occurring each spring. [5]
A woolly caterpillar of Gynaephora groenlandica on Baffin Island. Gynaephora selenitica (Esper, 1789) Gynaephora rossii (Curtis, 1835) Gynaephora groenlandica (Wocke, 1874) Sometimes the alpine populations of Asia of Gynaephora rossii are recognised as an independent species: G. relictus (O.Bang-Haas, 1927).
The Woolly Worm Festival is an event held each October since 1978 in Banner Elk and Avery County, North Carolina. [1] The festival celebrates the supposed weather-predicting abilities of the woolly worm, also called "woolly bear" which is a caterpillar or larvae of the isabella tiger moth. Events include a caterpillar race.
Woolly bear may refer to: The hairy caterpillar of any of the moth subfamily Arctiinae; The hairy caterpillar of the banded woolly bear (Pyrrharctia isabella) The hairy caterpillar of the Arctic woolly bear moth (Gynaephora groenlandica) The hairy caterpillar of the spotted tussock moth (Lophocampa maculata) The larva of the varied carpet beetle
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The family includes the underwings ; litter moths (Herminiinae); tiger, lichen, footman and wasp moths ; tussock moths (Lymantriinae), including the arctic woolly bear moth (Gynaephora groenlandica); [1] fruit-piercing moths (Calpinae and others); micronoctuoid moths (Micronoctuini); snout moths ; and zales, though many of these common names ...