This little critter is wearing the colours of my favourite team, the BC Lions Football Club. Hooray for the Lions, who today won the Western Championship over their rivals the Edmonton Eskimos! The Lions are red-hot right now. I don't believe there is a team in the league that can beat them. Next week, I expect the Lions to prove this out in the 99th annual Grey Cup Final.
For the curious, the photo is one I took the other day of a "wooly bear" caterpillar, which is the larval state of the Isabella Tiger Moth. These creatures are very common in our area, if not most of the world's temperate biosphere at this time. Any day now, many of these little crawlers will form their own coccoons and hibernate during freezing termperatures. In the spring when the air warms, they will hatch to form adult moths. Folktale has it that the wider the orange stripe or the furrier the caterpillar, the worse the upcoming winter will be. Basic studies have shown that these factors are merely genetic variations within the species.
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