WOOLY WORM
anyone believe in the wooly worm? i have seen the black and brown in different proportions, but today i saw one that was all white. wonder if that means a lot of snow this year!
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It means you are seeing different species of catterpilar. They predict the weather less well than the weater service.
An Indian of my aquaintance predicted a long cold winter coming. When I asked how he knew that, he replied, "White men have all got big wood piles."0 -
quote:Originally posted by jwb267
anyone believe in the wooly worm? i have seen the black and brown in different proportions, but today i saw one that was all white. wonder if that means a lot of snow this year!
You are hanging out at the wrong type of bars...0 -
quote:Originally posted by He Dog
It means you are seeing different species of catterpilar. They predict the weather less well than the weater service.
An Indian of my aquaintance predicted a long cold winter coming. When I asked how he knew that, he replied, "White men have all got big wood piles."
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I see a lot of flat ones on the Highway... that is a sign that they are too freaking slow!!! 0 -
They seem to be fairly accurate... 0 -
Wooly Worms may not be much better than the National Weather Service, or even NOAA at forecasting weather (I have three daughters, and am pleased to announce not one of them married a broadcast weatherman/meteorlogist, for married life is fraught with difficulties enough without getting hitched to a pathological and professional liar). However, students of the Wooly Worm will affirm that there are a couple of things they're really good at.
I don't know if you've noticed, but Wooly Worms spend quite a lot of time crossing highways. As you know, highways are crowned, with the centers sitting higher than the edges, in order that water will be diverted off the road and into the side ditches as quickly as possible, to lessen chances of hydroplaning don't you know?
Well anyhow, Wooly Worms cannot see over the crown in the highway, yet they will invariably cross the highway at right angles, that is to say, at 90 degrees +/- 1.4572 degrees. You will NEVER see a Wooly Worm crawling parallel to the highway, or at any angle more or less than that noted above....and of course, the fact they always take the shortest distance across the road, that is, at a 90 degree angle, is prima facie evidence that the grass is indeed, greener on the other side of the road and worth getting while the getting's good.
And too, Wooly Worms aren't very dense, physically speaking that is...some contend they're sort of dense in the mental areas, but that's somewhat arguable. At the very least, don't take that to mean they have no reasoning powers whatsoever.
As you know, evolution is a mighty slow moving process, and high speed 18 wheelers have been blasting down our highways for less than a hundred years, much too little time for the many generations of Wooly Worms to evolve to the level they currently inhabit....
So without reasoning ability, how is it that Wooly Worms know to form themselves into a perfectly shaped round ball, whenever speeding 18 wheelers cause their light little bodies to lose traction? Watch carefully, and you'll see any Wooly Worms taken into this situation will form that little ball, and go rolling merrily along the highway.
Naturally, they look for any upcoming windshear, by which they will cross the highway while rolling, if possible, once again, getting to the other side the quickest way, and at 90 degrees.
See, sometimes there's much more than meets the eye in the wonderful world of nature around us. All it takes is a good eye and a modicum of intellectual prowess.
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quote:I don't know if you've noticed, but Wooly Worms spend quite a lot of time crossing highways. As you know, highways are crowned, with the centers sitting higher than the edges, in order that water will be diverted off the road and into the side ditches as quickly as possible, to lessen chances of hydroplaning don't you know?
You're right! Now that you mention it, I've never seen a caterpillar lose control in a hydroplane.0 -
wooly worm = caterpillar = a baby moth or butterfly
Some are more numerous than others at different times of year, depending upon when or where their host plants are around.0 -
quote:Originally posted by jwb267
anyone believe in the wooly worm? i have seen the black and brown in different proportions, but today i saw one that was all white. wonder if that means a lot of snow this year!
It was a Albino[:D]0
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