those caterpillars are confusing. I can find the mostly orange ones, and then a mostly black on the same outer wall of the house . Maybe the wild weather blows them into the wrong state.
There are several species of moths that have the "woolly bear" type of caterpillar, some of which have very different coloring from the banded type. Maybe you are seeing different species; the ones found around here are almost always either solid black or solid orange.
And did you know that the size of the bands on a woolly bear have to do with the size and age of the worm? Woolly bear caterpillars start with a lot of black, and a short orange band in the middle, and develop a wider orange band each time they molt. So woolly bear caterpillars that are a certain age/size will always have the same amount of orange and black.
On a totally different subject, perhaps some of you remember me mentioning this when it happened last year:
http://www.wect.com/2018/10/14/sepentarium-co-owner-found-not-guilty-husbands-murder/
Having heard the 911 calls that both she and her husband made, this is the outcome I expected. The woman was not making sense; the matter of accountability can get weird when a person with a serious mental disorder doesn't take their meds. I suppose in a way, the husband could be seen as being partly to blame for keeping a loaded weapon where such an unstable person could get their hands on it.
Though the employees hoped to keep the Serpentarium going in Dean's memory, the family sold the snakes, the building, the whole shootin' match (ugh, that was a poor choice of words, wasn't it). A very sad end to a colorful part of Wilmington history.
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