Posts Tagged: tiger moth
Gotta Love Those Woolly Bear Caterpillars
You gotta love those woolly bear caterpillars. Richard "Rick" Karban, UC Davis distinguished professor of entomology, studies them. The rest of us admire them. We usually see them in the spring along the cliffs of Bodega Head on the Sonoma coast....
A wooly bear caterpillar investigating an ice plant on Bodega Head, Sonoma County, in April 2022.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The wooly bear caterpillar becomes a tiger moth, Arctia virginalis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Researchers: Wooly Bear Caterpillars Pick Winner of U.S. Presidential Campaign
Score another win for those wooly bear caterpillars. For the past three decades, wooly bear caterpillars have accurately predicted a Republican or Democrat win in the U.S. Presidential elections. This year, despite the pollsters, pundits and political...
UC Davis researchers Rick Karban (left) and his graduate student Eric LoPresti with their chart linking wooly bear caterpillars to U.S. Presidential elections. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of U.S. Presidential election predictions (red designates Republicans and blue, Democrats).
A wooly bear caterpillar on Bodega Head in 2011. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Wooly bear caterpillars eating lupine in 2008 on Bodega Head, Sonoma County. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)