chrysalids

Many had very recently struggled from chrysalids in cocoons bivouacked on grass stems, and so their colours were vivid and their flights strong.

Country diary 2010

I am excited about new possibilities, grieving things and ways of living left behind, and absorbed in helping release my two emerging butterflies from their chrysalids.

The Inner Maze of Waiting Meg 2009

Two weeks ago they were my sparrows, now they are my butterflies, in some ways still struggling to break free of the confining boundaries of their cocoon/chrysalids.

The Inner Maze of Waiting Meg 2009

Baked in the ashes the chrysalids have a wholesome, clean appearance, with a flavour of coco-nut, and the “white fella” always came in for his share.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

They slept inside radiation-resistant golden chrysalids for 140 days.

Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

Fortunately, treated Haluk individuals who had reverted to the testudomorph state did emerge from their chrysalids as healthy allomorphic graciles.

Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

You know — wondering whether Haluk chrysalids might be the source of some great new antibiotic, or some such thing.

Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

This is mainly because many collectors like to rear their own material and they purchase eggs, caterpillars, or chrysalids instead of killed adults.

5 Application to Other Nations 1983

I travelled with only those items that I thought necessary to relieve the tedium of a long journey: four books on natural history, a butterfly net, a dog, and a jam-jar full of caterpillars all in imminent danger of turning into chrysalids.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

Ocellar ribband: a crescent-shaped, smooth thin belt across the eye region in butterfly chrysalids.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith