Wooly Worms

Wooly worms appear in the fall.  They are caterpillars that are 
able to survive through the winter because they have bristly
hair all over their bodies.  Wooly worms have thirteen
distinctive black and reddish-brown bands that have become
a rule of thumb for forecasting the thirteen weeks of winter.

According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, the longer the 
middle brown band,  the milder and shorter the coming
winter; the shorter the brown band, the  longer and more
severe winter will be.

Here's a wooly worm I found on my front porch.  There are two 
black lines on his head, or is it his butt?, follwed by lots of 
brown and then some more black and a tad of brown.  What 
he's trying to say is that the winter will start out 
nasty, get better, then nasty again ending with a warm spell.

His little brother said the same thing.  It looks like I better get out 
my woolies soon as the nasty stuff is coming.