[NatureNS] wooly bear caterpillar

Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:37:45 -0400
From: "Margaret E.Millard" <mmillard@eastlink.ca>
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I have seen a couple around my yard as well. Black with a reddish band. I 
was thinking maybe the ice was making a mini greenhouse and warming them. 
Hard to imagine on a very cold day.
Marg in White Point, Queens

http://margmillard.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
To: "NatureNS" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 11:19 AM
Subject: FW: [NatureNS] wooly bear caterpillar


>I too would like to know where this occurred, and please describe its
> colours as well, so that we can figure out what kind of woolly bear moth 
> it
> is.  These are adapted to pass the winter outdoors as caterpillars, so 
> there
> was no need to take pity on it and bring it inside.
>
> Cheers from Jim
> ----------
> From: jen cooper <iffercooper@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:43:22 +0000
> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> Subject: [NatureNS] wooly bear caterpillar
>
> hello,
>
> have i made a big mistake!!?? i found a little wooly bear caterpillar 
> today
> on a big sheet of ice and didnt have the heart to leave him. interestingly 
> i
> put him in my cotton gloved hand and covered him over with my other and 
> not
> a minute went by and both of my hands were really really warm. the heat
> coming off of him!! he came for my walk with me and he is now in one of my
> plants in my sunroom. i dont mind providing room and board until spring if
> hes a modest nibbler. please tell me if hes a modest nibbler.
>
> thanks
> jen cooper
>
> ps. sometimes when crows say 'hello' it makes me feel like cattle must 
> feel
> when kids hang out the car window and 'moooo' at them
>
>
>
>
>
> 

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