O wow, that’s pretty small. I didn’t know that caterpiller can live that far north. So does that mean it turns into a butterfly and you get butterflies in Arctic Bay? If so, cool!
Yes it is pretty small, we have a number of butterfly and moth species up here. Amazingly one of our moth’s caterpillar the Arctic Wooly Bear Caterpillar takes 14 years to mature, freezing solid each winter and then coming alive each summer.
Melodie
Wow!!! That’s really fascinating. So it would be easy to mistake it for being dead then…wow! 14 years to mature!!! Maybe next winter if you find one you can take a picture of it…assuming it’s not buried under mounds of snow, lol.
I’ve only rarely seen a Wooly Bear caterpillar here Melodie, but they don’t look very different from southern sort. Wooly with three bands. Finding them in winter would be nigh on impossible
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O wow, that’s pretty small. I didn’t know that caterpiller can live that far north. So does that mean it turns into a butterfly and you get butterflies in Arctic Bay? If so, cool!
Yes it is pretty small, we have a number of butterfly and moth species up here. Amazingly one of our moth’s caterpillar the Arctic Wooly Bear Caterpillar takes 14 years to mature, freezing solid each winter and then coming alive each summer.
Wow!!! That’s really fascinating. So it would be easy to mistake it for being dead then…wow! 14 years to mature!!! Maybe next winter if you find one you can take a picture of it…assuming it’s not buried under mounds of snow, lol.
I’ve only rarely seen a Wooly Bear caterpillar here Melodie, but they don’t look very different from southern sort. Wooly with three bands. Finding them in winter would be nigh on impossible