2015 October 17

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Here is a latish Yellow Woolly Bear from Martindale Flats today.  There were also several Cabbage Whites still in flight over Martindale Flats. Unlike the Banded Woolly Bear, which spends the winter as a caterpillar and is much in evidence just now, the Yellow Woolly Bear spends the winter as a pupa inside a silken cocoon – so this individual is just a little late. 

Yellow Woolly Bear Spilosoma virginica (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Jeremy Tatum