These furry caterpillars are related to the woolly bears. They resemble the orange version of the yellow woolly bear, but they are less common and typically larger, with less-dense fur.

It’s early fall and we sometimes enjoy seeing fuzzy orange and black caterpillars trekking over the trails on their way to better foraging or a site for pupation. Although we usually call them ...

A reader emailed me a picture of a caterpillar that was feeding on her milkweed. ... I identified the fuzzy orange, black and white caterpillar as the larva of the milkweed tussock moth, Euchaetes ...

"I planted a bunch of milkweed for the migrating monarch butterflies, but there’s a fuzzy orange, black and white caterpillar eating my milkweed. What should I do?" — P.R.