{"id":277,"date":"2014-09-23T05:30:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T11:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=277"},"modified":"2015-05-06T07:57:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:57:04","slug":"isabella-tiger-moth-pyrrharctia-isabella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"Isabella tiger moth <em>(Pyrrharctia isabella)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_278\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Isabella_tiger_moth_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-278\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-278\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Isabella_tiger_moth_01-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"Isabella tiger moth\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Isabella_tiger_moth_01-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Isabella_tiger_moth_01-624x498.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Isabella_tiger_moth_01.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Bill Reynolds<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In its larval (caterpillar) stage, Isabella tiger moth <em>(Pyrrharctia Isabella)<\/em> may be the most widely recognized moth in North America. Most of us have seen a woolly bear crossing a sidewalk, driveway, road, or parking lot. It has a densely bristly body that is black on both ends and orange in the middle. The adult is less conspicuous but equally distinctive. They are nocturnal and therefore rarely seen.<\/p>\n<p>Folklore says that the size of the orange band predicts the severity of the coming winter, with wider bands forecasting a milder winter. This means of forecasting is probably as accurate as the <em>Farmer\u2019s Almanac<\/em>, though not as accurate as the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Insects\/Isabella_tiger_moth.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Insects\/Isabella_tiger_moth.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Insects\/Isabella_tiger_moth.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=277\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its larval (caterpillar) stage, Isabella tiger moth (Pyrrharctia Isabella) may be the most widely recognized moth in North America. Most of us have seen a woolly bear crossing a sidewalk, driveway, road, or parking lot. It has a densely bristly body that is black on both ends and orange in the middle. The adult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[90,92,91],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}