Webworms sound gross, and they kind of are. We get them every year in the trees. Thankfully, this year, we don’t have them as bad as they do in southern Missouri. I went to visit a friend in Ash Grove and the worms were falling out of the trees. I ended up with one falling down the back of my shirt. Did a nice dance until I got it out.
You can’t see them in this picture, but this is a web they have woven in one of our persimmon trees.
My grandmother always told me when you find an inchworm on you it was measuring you for new clothes.
This is a wooly bear caterpillar. I grew up calling them wooly worms. This is the larval form of the Isabella Tiger Moth. This caterpillar, according to legend, forecasts the coming winter weather. Again I defer to the Old Farmers Almanac, (http://www.almanac.com/content/predicting-winter-weather-woolly-bear-caterpillars), “the wider that middle brown section is (i.e., the more brown segments there are), the milder the coming winter will be. Conversely, a narrow brown band is said to predict a harsh winter. ” So, it is the wooly worm vs the persimmon seed in weather prediction. I am voting for the wooly worm 🙂
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