Want to know how bad this winter might be? You could look at the latest forecast. Or you could turn to the woolly bear ...

This edition of Weather Tidbits will be discussing the folklore behind woolly bear caterpillar forecasting. This folklore revolves around forecasting the severity of an upcoming winter season based on ...

Tis the season for woolly bears or woolly worms, those fuzzy little caterpillars out and about are looking for places to ...

The woolly worm has been the center of an old wives tale for predicting the weather for centuries. Here’s what the critters ...

Consider the tale of the woolly worm, which is actually the woolly bear caterpillar, and not a worm at all. These black and ...

From snow to sleet to freezing rain, winter can be a big headache here in the densest state in the country. Between late ...

Usually used in the (hype-ish) context of a "bomb cyclone" or "snow bomb". The full term is "bombogenesis," which is a rapid ...

An expert at Iowa State University’s Insect Zoo says there may actually be some science behind the folklore about how the thickness of the wooly bear ... sampled all of the wooly caterpillars ...

If you see one of these thick, wooly caterpillars cut them some slack. The little creatures are looking for a warm spot to ...

All hail the woolly worm, harbinger of winter.The annual migration of the wooly worm caterpillar ... a woolly bear, the larvae emerge from the earth in the colder months -- brown and black hair ...

An expert at Iowa State University is weighing in on whether the Wooly Bear Caterpillar can give off hints as to how severe the upcoming winter will or won't be ...