Willy Worm Festival 2025. This is the woolly worm festival, an event centered entirely around the larvae of pyrrharctia isabella—also known as the isabella tiger moth, or the woolly. The wwf will have food vendors, inflatables.

Join us on october 19 & 20, 2025 in banner elk, north carolina for woolly worm races, craft and food vendors, live entertainment, children’s activities, and so much more. According to legend, the 13 bands on the woolly.