He collected some chrysalidesand put them into a box, and letting them hatch there, observed the blood-like liquid, and hastened to make it known to the friends of the miraculous.
Chrysalides of the small Tortoise-shell Butterfly freeing themselves from the Caterpillar skin.
But they ran the risk thus of being burnt, or of a certain number of chrysalides remaining alive.
Apparatus for stifling the chrysalides in the cocoons.
Memoir of Reaumur (sur la transformation des chrysalides en papillons), show the states through which the wings of the same moth pass, before they are thoroughly developed.
About thirty hours after the caterpillars have succeeded in making themselves fast, they have completed their transformation into chrysalides (Fig.
The evil developed itself especially in the chrysalides and in the moths, and it was in them that search should be made.
A still more significant fact was, that corpuscles were also absent from the chrysalides and the moths of those few worms which were able to spin their cocoons.
Many of the chrysalides died before they turned into moths, and their bodies might be said to be entirely composed of corpuscles.
Those which spun their cocoons produced chrysalides which were nothing but corpusculous pulp, if such a term be allowed.
The communication of the disease exhibited itself in a marked degree in the chrysalides and in the moths.
He attached extreme importance to ascertaining whether the presence of corpuscles in the chrysalides or moths of the good groups, and the absence of the same corpuscles in the worms of the bad groups, was an accidental or a general fact.
Amid the stinging cold the wee brown form of a winter wren will dodge round a brush pile--a tiny bundle of energy which defies all chill winds and which resolves bug chrysalides and frozen insects into a marvellous activity.
These chrysalides are most interesting objects to keep during the winter months.
By reference to the figures of chrysalides on Plate I.
The chrysalides are armed with short spines projecting from the segments.
Some chrysalides are not nearly so active as has just been represented; in fact, there are many which seem to show no signs of life during the greater part of the time spent in that state.
The chrysalides are inclosed in silken cocoons, but are not hairy.
I have known some chrysalides to completely bury themselves in this way during the course of a day or two, and others to partly expose themselves after having been lightly covered.
The chrysalides are often hairy, though some of them are perfectly smooth.
The butterflies of the summer brood emerge shortly after, but the chrysalides of the next brood hybernate till the following spring.
We shall now devote a little space to a few general remarks on the chrysalides and the final metamorphosis of butterflies and moths.
The caterpillars are to be found in June, and the chrysalides in July.
From July to September the chrysalides may be obtained in plenty by breaking up the sods at the roots of oaks, and the perfect insect may be found toward the end of September and throughout October.
Now let us return to one of the chrysalides that we have already watched through the earlier stages of its existence, and follow it in its future development.
The chrysalidesterminate behind in a sharp spine, and are always to be found buried in the soil.
The chrysalides are generally attached by the 'tail,' and further secured by a silken cord round the body, as we have already observed in the case of the Pieridae.
In form thechrysalides of butterflies and moths are as variable as the caterpillars.
The chrysalides are also hairy; and several of the moths themselves are not only thickly clad with shaggy hair, but a bold tuft often tips the abdomen.
Reaumur long ago asserted that numerouschrysalides would furnish a beautiful silk.
But allchrysalides from the same lot of eggs, and not exposed to cold, also produced Umbrosa.
Five chrysalides lived through the winter, and all gave Telamonides in the spring of 1879.
In the last experiment, either the cold had not fully suspended the changes which the insect undergoes in the chrysalis, or its action was to hasten them after the chrysalides were taken from the ice.
The exposure was from nineteen to five days, those chrysalides which were put on ice latest having the shortest exposure.
Chrysalides of Papilio Ajax in the same box, and partly exposed very soon after pupation, were not injured.
The result was, that more than half of the chrysalides exposed before they had hardened died: 1 exposed at ten minutes, 2 at one hour, 1 at two hours, 2 at three hours after pupation.
During the same season 6 other Ajax chrysalides were placed in the box, and kept at about 0°-1° R.
But chrysalides of Ajax, exposed at same time, did give changed butterflies to some extent.
Six chrysalidesof the Grapta so exposed produced unchanged Umbrosa, the co-form with Fabricii.
I could find you plenty of the chrysalides of the white butterflies by your greenhouses, but if you want moths, take this trowel and dig around the other side of this tree about three inches from it and three inches deep.
Dick marked this spot, and in a short time he came to gather the gilded chrysalides which on every plant shone brightly in the sunshine.
In May, 1878, many chrysalides were placed in the ice-box, being from eggs laid by Ajax, var.
It appeared, therefore, that the only effect produced by cold in all chrysalides exposed more than three days after pupation was to retard the emergence of the butterfly.
At the end of two hours, however, the ants were still rushing hither and thither, bent on errands unknown to their observers, although the work of conveying the chrysalides had at the lapse of the period just mentioned entirely ceased.
The latter fact I could not ascertain, since I feared to disturb the ants at their interesting labors; but a simple experiment served to show the feasibility of the idea that the chrysalides were probably within easy reach of the ants.
The pupæ of the yellow ants, however, were not merely left untouched, but the slave-makers exhibited every system of terror and alarm at the sight of the chrysalides of their yellow neighbors.
The Sanguineas make periodical excursions, and, like a powerful predatory clan, carry off the pupæ or chrysalides of a neighboring species, F.
It was rather a difficult matter to ascertain clearly if the ants were actually excavating the chrysalides from amongst the débris.
A like chance presented with the pupæ of their slave race was eagerly seized, and the chrysalides carried off.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chrysalides" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
