Posted on 08/14/2024 10:19:17 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Hey, Siri! Help book me a trip somewhere warm in the final week of January.
If the latest Farmers’ Almanac prediction is true, you might want to put your toes in the sand after Christmas. The coming winter will be wet and cold in most places, according to the almanac’s outlook.
The Farmers’ Almanac has been making long-range weather forecasts for more than 200 years.
According to its latest outlook, released Tuesday, you should prepare yourself for the “Wet, Winter, Whirlwind” ahead. Its annual extended weather prediction calls for a season of rapid-fire storms that will bring both rain and snow.
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They’re my favorite caterpiller. Why do you only see them in the fall?
Why I live in Arizona...☺ I hate winters, hate cold, hate ice, frigid blowing winds. I stay active so snow and cold azz winters are no bueno!
We’ll be in the mid to high 80s/low 90s for the next 10 days. Winters here can get cold, but very doable compared to most venues...Cold is a flat out deal breaker for me.
Winter’s going to be cold. Followed by hot summer. We live in an age of miracles.
My now deceased brother used to love deep snowstorms so he could mess around with the snowblowers he refurbished. He was disappointed those winters if he rarely or didnt use them.
God Bless
I noticed some young trees that drive by every started to show the beginnings of their Fall colors about mid-July. That tells me it is going to be a cold winter. La Nina is supposed to be in full effect by the end of the year.
Trump will bring energy prices down so people who live in colder climes will be able to afford to crank up the heat and be happy.
Oh well… we won’t be in the northeast this winter. 😄
It depends on where you live.
here will commonly be two hatches per year and I’ve heard of three. In my area the caterpillars cocoon in say November and hatch as moths in say April. The April moths lay eggs and produce the fall caterpillars with maybe a third hatching in the summer.
I have never seen the banded coloration in the spring. I have seen some thought to be the Isia isabella species but the color is that of a blonde, honey colored cocker spaniel. I can’t say that for certain.
I have raised caterpillars to cocoon to hatched moths on several occasions. I have actually had the new female moths lay eggs. The hatched larva are very fragile and I have never been able to keep them alive to the point they had the colored bristles in the spring.
We actually live in South Carolina now, so happily we’ll avoid another winter in the northeast.
What are they saying?
Every summer the monarchs come to her yard and lay their eggs and she collects them and raises them in a couple of caterpiller cages I built for her.
Incredibly, two summers ago she collected and raised approx. 75 eggs off her plants and she gave me a few caterpillers that I raised in my cage and released them when the butterflies emerged.
But it's crazy on how many she gets each year from the few plants she has.
I've searched the milkweeds beside my subdivision and have never found any. It's almost as if the ones she releases come back to her yard the following summer.
As a side note, I was over to their house one day, standing in the back yard when a monarch flew in and landed on a single, small milkweed plant next to where I was standing and laid an egg.
Biden warns of winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated!
One fall, we went to the Alabama Gulf coast and rode a ferry between the mainland and the coastal islands. Here we were, miles from shore, and there were Monarch butterflies in the air. At least one landed on the ferry for a while.
I believe they butterflies were enroute to Mexico....... out over the Guld of Mexico!
While I was growing up in Michigan, there were some people who did the same thing ...
... but I never could figure out how they got enough wooly-worms to make those winter coats.
Well honestly we are overdue... last few winters have been beyond mild.
There aren’t any in my area. You can find charts on the interwebs for comparison purposes. The catch is, you have to bring your own Wooly Worm.
They usually ended up as socks.
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