What does wooly bear turn into

Hi, I just walked to the forest preserve this afternoon and found this cute wooly bear Month. I bring him home put jn the shoes clear bin and put some leaves and put dump wet paper towel. I leave in Illinois today whether here 67F. My caterpillar has been in his cocoon for 2 weeks now. IS he okay?? I can kind of see him inside the cocoon, but he is not fuzzy. Hi apple is my caterpillar, without seeing it firsthand, we have no way of knowing.

Are you keeping it in your home? So I guess this means a mild winter, not a lot of snow, cold and days when the roads will tend to get slippery when it has been sunny during the day and then when evening approaches the temperature will drop thus producing tricky roads for driving. It looked agitated on the hot pavement. When I came back through less than 10 mins later , it was barely moving. I tried to get him to crawl onto a small leaf, but I was too late.

I love these guys. If I was the size of a caterpillar I would hug them. I wish that I could make a tv show where there are tiny caterpillars that wear suits and they tell me the forecast. Can anyone help?

Found a Woollybear on my kitchen floor next to the heat register. I put it on my potted basil plant. Hi Jane! What did his orange and black bands look like — are you in for a mild or cold winter?

Creation never fails to amaze me. The complexity of even the lower creatures is mind blowing. Is it easy to confuse a moth and a butterfly, but there are a couple of clues that might help with that. Moths are usually active at night, while butterflies prefer sunlight; moths have feathery antennas and butterflies have some fire match-like ones. Another simple way to differentiate them is to observe their wings while resting: butterflies will hold their wings up, while moths fold their wings back.

The fussy and furry body of the woolly worms gave them the nickname of woolly bears; this hair is a self-defense mechanism to scare predators away from eating them. This furry characteristic is quite common in most larvae of the 11, moth species in the Arctiinae family, which includes the tiger moth, wasp moths, lichen moths, and footman moths. All these hairy caterpillars are known as woolly bears too! They all vary in color, abdominal segments, length, and bristles depending on the species. The most popular and common is the banded woolly bear , which is the larva of the Isabella tiger moth, however, confusion between them and other wooly bears is understandable.

In fact, there are at least eight other woolly bear species in the United States that share similar physical characteristics. The yellow woolly bear will turn into the Virginia tiger moth or Spilosoma virginica. These segment caterpillars have a combination of short and long bristles; and they vary from a light cream to platinum blonde, caramel, chestnut, and even a cinnamon color.

They can molt up to six times in a lifetime before turning into moths. Yellow bears will be born during two cycles, the first one in May and the other one in August; but unlike the banded woolly bears, they will pupate during the winter to emerge in early spring.

The yellow bear will turn into a beautiful pure white moth with tiny black spots, on the contrary of other tiger moth species that have patterned wings and bodies.

The males are smaller than the females and have a harrier body. Even if their common colors are black and orange, a banded woolly bear can also be a total black fellow and sometimes even fully brown scroll down to see what this color variation means! However, there is another popular black woolly bear caterpillar or giant woolly bear.

This segment caterpillar is fully covered in shiny black bristles and tiny red spiracles but it also has dark brown and orange skin, usually visible underneath. Full-grown larvae will be around 3 inches long. Only one generation of black woollies will be born each year, although there can be two in southern areas. They will overwinter for almost 7 months—from August to May- until they are ready to become the largest moth species.

The eye tiger moth will have white wings with an attractive black pattern that simulates the one on the feline from their name, with a wingspan of almost 9 cm! The head and abdomen of these creatures can be bright orange with iridescent black and blue spotting. They are commonly found in Southern Ontario, Florida, and Texas.

The white woolly bear worm is the younger stage of the Hickory Tussock Moth. These pretty caterpillars are snow-white with black specs splattered around their body, covered in white and black setae. A full-grown fuzzy fellow will be 4. Variously called wooly bears, wooly worms or wooly caterpillars, the larval form of the tiger moths are small, fuzzy insects of family Arctiidae.

About species inhabit North America, and many more live around the world. These moths are unusual not only for their fuzzy larval form but also because they make sounds to attract mates and repel predators. The fuzzy outer hair on wooly bear caterpillars makes the creatures less vulnerable to attack from predators. While experts seem to disagree whether the hairs on a wooly caterpillar act as irritants, they definitely provide a layer of protection between the caterpillars and danger.

Woolly bears do not turn into butterflies! They actually turn into the Isabella tiger moth. These moths have a 2 inch wingspan and are a light yellow colour with black spots.

A woolly bear will not turn into a moth until next spring or early summer. The caterpillar will keep munching on leaves until winter begins. A woolly bear, unlike most caterpillars, will remain a caterpillar all winter, unlike other species that overwinter as a pupa in a cocoon.