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Look at the Wooly Worm I found! Long winter or short?
Mother Nature
Posted on 11/04/2001 5:23:53 PM PST by lawgirl
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To: unix
It snowed a little bit in Boone, N.C. on the 26th.
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posted on
11/04/2001 7:58:08 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: katze
"...get a visit from the PETA gang..."
Shouldn't that be the PETW folks (if not, then maybe the PETI) ??
To: error99
Why, madam, I'm certain that you must have taken what I said the wrong way... (wink) Oh I know you much better than that. *guilty grin* check out post #58 and click the link.
To: BigWaveBetty
OMG! lmao! I can't believe someone did that to their cat! I couldn't even read past the first page... that was enough information!
To: Wake up and smell the cheese
so I changed my screen name. I'm an oldie. LOL! I think the unwritten rule is that you can never change your screen name without going through a new "newbie" period. That's why I have never seriously considered changing to a more creative screen name. I couldn't handle the loss of "seniority," such as it is!
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posted on
11/04/2001 8:02:51 PM PST
by
LJLucido
To: LJLucido
I think the unwritten rule is that you can never change your screen name without going through a new "newbie" period. Ah FOOEY!!!!!!!!!
To: LJLucido
But it's a great name... isn't it! He,he,he!
To: JudyB1938
LOL you are such fun. hhahaha
To: lawgirl
ROTFL....... I have a cat and a dog. This so hilarious.
To: BigWaveBetty
Hahahahahahahah hahahahahaha TOO Funny !!!!!!
To: Dallas
"Our house is being totally over-run with woolyworms, and scorpions. "
I think the scorpions come into the house to eat the woolyworms. Very disgusting. Once we found a rattlesnake in the house!! But it was just a baby. We have critters around here because we live by a State Park. A few summers ago our neighbors let their kids play on the driveway after sundown. They heard a hissing and ran in the house. It turned out to be a BIG rattlesnake. Of course this is Texas, everybody got thier guns and we had a rattlesnake roundup. Those things are hard to kill.
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posted on
11/04/2001 9:22:11 PM PST
by
Theresa
To: TexanMom
I think I have been stung by them. It's wierd. Suddenly you get this sharp pain. And you think what was THAT?
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posted on
11/04/2001 9:24:47 PM PST
by
Theresa
To: lawgirl
LOL per post #29! (What a cute kitty!) By the way, I've never seen a Wooly Worm before. He's cute!
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posted on
11/04/2001 9:29:45 PM PST
by
Fraulein
To: lawgirl
He's cool. Don't be mean to him.
To: Keith in Iowa
From that link you posted...
"There's evidence," he says, "that the number of brown hairs has to do with the age of the caterpillar -- in other words, how late it got going in the spring. The [band] does say something about a heavy winter or an early spring. The only thing is . . . it's telling you about the previous year."
To: Alabama_Wild_Man
You got me on that one. ;-) Ooooh, now I got it.
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posted on
11/04/2001 11:54:43 PM PST
by
katze
To: lawgirl
Wooly worms appear in a variety of colors
To: lawgirl
I live in KY. We have more wooly worms than any year I can think of . I am 52. Yes, we have a bunch, just like yours. I never gave it a thought, until , you brought it up. I am not sure what kind of winter that would represent. We have all colors here. I guess we would have the type of winter, depending which, wooly worm you chose. Blonde, Lt.Brown,Med.Brown,etc.
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posted on
11/05/2001 12:25:13 AM PST
by
auggy
To: lawgirl
LOL ! Good break from the insanity here...........
If you look closely at wooly worms, you may notice that they aren't all one color. Sometimes they have black hairs on each side of a reddish brown band. Heavy black on the front supposedly means a hard winter while red velvet on the rear means a mild winter.
Or if the wooly has a wide center of brown, then it will be mild winter all the way. If they are light colored in the front and dark in the back, it will be mild and then harsh.
What happens if you can't tell the difference between the front and back of the worm? You'll be just like the rest of us and won't really know what to expect.
Based on what I see in the Pic......I'd buy a parka and a new snow shovel for Hubby :o) .......
Stay Safe !
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posted on
11/05/2001 12:27:30 AM PST
by
Squantos
To: Pokey78
Gore is just crying out for a turban there...
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posted on
11/05/2001 12:43:28 AM PST
by
piasa
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