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“Do you always have this
many?” asked a friend, visiting a
few weeks ago on a pleasant Octo
ber afternoon.
An avid feeder of squirrels, she
and her family were gleaning a
few ears of com from one of our
fields that had been harvested for
silage. What she had noticed “so
many” of were woolly bear cater
pillars. those brown and fuzzy lar
vae that actually lend some mean
ing to the phrase “cute as a bug.”
And, yes, at least here on the farm,
woolly bears seem more prevalent
this fall than they have for the past
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ENGINES & EQUIPMENT
23 Pleaeanl Valley Rd.
717-738-4215
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several years.
The first one 1 saw came crawl
ing through in mid-August, which
seemed like an ominously early
start for a caterpillar that sup
posedly foretells winter weather
forecasts. And, since mid-Septem
ber, they seemed to be every
where.
Each trip to the garden turns up
woolly bears. They are on the
porches, in the flower beds, in the
basement, in the laundrybasket.
One day last week, I nearly
squashed except for qqick side
stepping two woollies crawling
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Jonestown
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717-865-2994
Mverstown
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688 E. Lincoln Ave.
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northward uup the blacktop grade
between the calf nursery and the
old bank bam.
Folklore has it that the black to
brown ratio of color on a woolly
bear is an indicator of the coldness
of winter. The more black, the
colder the winter. It sounds nice,
but our woo)jcs are wearing a
whole fashion statement of stripe
widths. Some were completely
brown. Others were completely
black.
My corn-gleaning friend related
that she had been told that the
black-brown ratio is an indicator
of how old the caterpillar was.
Curious, 1 called those experts of
just about everything the folks
at the York County Extension Of
fice.
Master Gardener volunteer
Sherry Rishei was handy (o the
phone; she checked some insect
manuals and printed material.
Sure enough, she found informa
tion backing up the black-brown
ratio as an indicator of how close
to maturity a woolly bear is.
Woolly bears, she related even
tually become “Isia isabella”
moths, two-inch yellowish
brown-colored with random black
dots. But, no details turned up on
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whether more black or more
brown meant the caterpillar was
still wet behind the ears or a senior
citizen critter.
My friend collected two wool
lies in jars for her children to ob
serve; overnight, one began to
form a mass of silky spinnings and
attached itself to the lid. Maybe
she can get a grant for further stu
dies.
Until we know more.. . figure
il*s going to be a long winter.
Meanwhile, another of our per
manent resident “bug" species is
keeping us decorated in (he true,
festive spirit of the season. For
endless years it seems, I’ve waged
the same battle fought by count
less other homeowners and house
cleaners.
Spider webs. Dangling from the
ceiling. Draped from the curtains.
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Linking comers of the living room
and ornamenting everything from
lampshades to picture frames.
Now, along with the wonderful
orange pumpkins of the season,
the clusters of cornstalks, the
“scarecrows” perched on front
porches, we have ornamental spi
der webs. Commercial, imitation
spider webs. Gosh, ain’t technolo
gy grand?
It’s sort of a spooky feeling to
have been on the cutting edge of
Halloween ornamentation. And so
early in the year every year.
If you don’t have your seasonal
spider web yet, call us at Rent-A-
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Our spiders spin organic, all
natural webbing. And work real
cheap. We might even throw in a
woolly bear as a bonus.
on November 6, from 1:30 p.m. 10
3 p.m. and on Sunday, November
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Admission is free. African vio
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717-367-8867
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