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Title
Black Wooly Bear Caterpillar
Artist
Linda Brody
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Black Wooly Bear Caterpillar. Macro Photography.
Chilly autumn mornings prompt a miniature migration of woolly bear caterpillars that slink along trails and fields in great numbers. Famed for their supposed ability to predict winter weather, these larvae of the tiger moth are in search of logs, rocks and piles of leaves under which they can sleep through cold winter months curled in a tight ball. Come spring, they’ll awake ravenous, ready to devour fresh leaves before spinning a cocoon with their long bristly hairs and reemerging as adult moths in late May. Woolly bears are particularly numerous around willows at lower elevations throughout California. They turn into Tiger Moths when mature.
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The wooly bear is a caterpillar, or larva. It hatched out of an egg, which the adult female
layed on the host plant. Eggs take about 5 to 12 days to hatch. When tiny, the caterpillar gets around to find food by ballooning with a wisp of silk, or using it like Tarzan’s vine to get
to the next batch of leaves. As it grows, the wooly bear can move pretty quickly on
its legs. It will spend the next few months eating and growing and shedding its skin to get bigger. A caterpillar will shed its skin or exoskeleton about five times. This is called molting, and the stage between molts is called an instar. When a wooly bear has finished eating and is ready to molt for the last time, it will rest and then change into a pupa. It may spin a loose, net-like cocoon, and pupate for a few months. The adult moth should emerge in its season.
When a wooly bear emerges as a moth, it will need to eat, fly at night, and find a mate
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Western, IL - United States
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Erlanger, KY - United States
Interesting subject and nicely done. It is amazing what they look like this close; and also interesting when you go so close, all you see are the barbs. I like this one.
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