Why did the woolly bear cross the road?
Sep. 22nd, 2005 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhetleyHe didn't. He got squashed halfway across. (At least judging by my informal survey of the local asphalt.) I shall have to ask The Naturalist if the tiny woolly bears I'm seeing are the same species as the larger ones, just hatched late and DOOMED.*
Other roadkill included a raccoon up by the golf course. I wonder how many armadillos the Tejas Evacuation has wiped out? (Warped priorities, I know, but that's the way my mind works.)
A beautiful Autumnal Equinox day outside except for the brisk breeze, rather more than a bicyclist would ask. The poison ivy is turning a most attractive crimson on the roadsides.
15.46 miles, 1:03:42
*Edited -- the Naturalist says the small woolly bears are the same species. Since they winter-over that way, it's Mother Nature's way of providing a range of responses to unknown future conditions. The old Anthropomorphic Representative Goddess is a ruthless bitch. Like, so what if half of them die in a given year? Deep snow or open winter, early or late spring, wet or dry, _some_ of the variants will make it.
Other roadkill included a raccoon up by the golf course. I wonder how many armadillos the Tejas Evacuation has wiped out? (Warped priorities, I know, but that's the way my mind works.)
A beautiful Autumnal Equinox day outside except for the brisk breeze, rather more than a bicyclist would ask. The poison ivy is turning a most attractive crimson on the roadsides.
15.46 miles, 1:03:42
*Edited -- the Naturalist says the small woolly bears are the same species. Since they winter-over that way, it's Mother Nature's way of providing a range of responses to unknown future conditions. The old Anthropomorphic Representative Goddess is a ruthless bitch. Like, so what if half of them die in a given year? Deep snow or open winter, early or late spring, wet or dry, _some_ of the variants will make it.
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Date: 2005-09-22 03:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-22 04:21 pm (UTC)Caterpillars, fat and furry, brown with black band in the middle (band varies in width, sometimes used as a folklore forecast of how severe the winter will be) or sometimes black with brown band, or even all brown. Normal size ('round heah) would be about 1.5"/40 mm in length. The small ones I was describing are 1/2" to 3/4" or 12-20mm long and proportionally narrower.