Can those fuzzy, little caterpillars crawling up your wall or across your sidewalk really foretell how cold and snowy winter will be?

Many swear the moth caterpillars can tell the future, but experts say it's nothing more than an old wives' tale.

" Wooly worms or banded wooly bears are the larvae or caterpillars of the Isabella tiger moth . The larvae have rusty brown and black stripes on their bodies. The brown stripe is in the middle and both ends are black," Michigan State University's Extension explained. "This fuzzy caterpillar is currently found crawling on sidewalks and sitting on porches all over Michigan."

The width of a woolly bear's stripes are believed to predict winter conditions. The lore says: "Wide black stripes mean a bad winter, whereas a wide brown stripe in the m

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