BIG Black Caterpillar

[John Lemen]

This one was all black - no brown bands...I saw lots of wooly bears, too !
This bad boy was twice as long as a wooly bear. (...unless it's a "pack up
and move to Florida for the winter" wooly bear...) 

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Woolly bear. Going to be a long, hard winter. 
Folk lore says that the amount and placement of black and brown predicts
the amount of cold weather. All-black wooly bears are reported common
this year in Tennessee, too. 

Anne Kilmer 
South Florida

John Lemen wrote:
> 
> Searched all over the net, but couldn't find any info on a large
> black caterpillar - approx 3" long and .5" diameter. It had
> bristles on each segment - resembled a bottle brush ! We live in
> Omaha, NE a couple hundred yards from the Missouri River; lot has
> many trees, mostly bur oaks.
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