If they are bright in colors and their wings perfect, they spent the winter in the chrysalis state.
It breaks from its chrysalis between four and seven in the afternoon, as the Hawk moth of the Lime always appears at noon, and that of the Evening Primrose at sunrise.
The Eggar has been known to remain seven years in thechrysalis state.
The Chrysalis is covered with a strongly glutinous matter, which resists not only weather, but the perforation of other insects.
The chrysalis of the Angle-shades is of a deep red colour, with two sharp points at the tail.
When about to change to the chrysalis state, they suspend themselves by the tail.
Every cocoon is a silken case spun by the caterpillar in which it can securely hide while it changes first into the chrysalis and then into its winged and final form.
To many people there is much confusion as to what is a chrysalis and what a real cocoon.
Near the close of the last century, John Abbot went from London and spent several years in Georgia, rearing the larger and more showy butterflies and moths, and painting them in the larva, chrysalis and adult, or imago stage.
In the autumn they cease eating, retire within their cases, and early in spring assume the chrysalis state.
Now we have noticed similar stages in the growth of a moth, though a portion of them are concealed beneath the hard, dense chrysalis skin.
The last of September it spins its dense cocoon, in which it hibernates in the chrysalis state.
In June, it changes to the chrysalis state, and early in July the butterfly rises from the cold, damp bogs, where we have oftenest found it, clad in its rich dress of velvety black and red.
At first the chrysalis is whitish, but just before the exclusion of the moth becomes the color of varnish.
The caterpillar passes several days within the cocoon, in what may be called the semi-pupa states during which period the chrysalis skin is forming beneath the contracted and loosened larva skin.
On the fourth day this shell split cleanly at the tail, and, from the opening, the hind part of the chrysalis emerged.
The chrysalis secured an independent foothold (using as stepping-stone the skin itself), spun itself from side to side, and cut the threads that bound it.
As it hung suspended, all the marvellous mechanism which had formed a moving, eating, spinning, sentient being, was absorbed into the chrysalis it covered.
Outwardly the chrysaliswas nothing but an extra leaf.
He struck the only thing within his reach, the chrysalis case itself.
Nature had armed the chrysaliswith the needful tools, a grip attachment and a set of tiny sharp-edged hooks.
Out of that plunge in robbery and murder came the leader of a gang of horse thieves--the chrysalis of the guerrilla captain of Osawatomie.
The moth, shortly after emerging from the chrysalis stage, lays from two or three hundred to seven hundred eggs.
Then it begins to spin the material that forms its chrysalis case or cocoon.
The silk of commerce is the fibre spun by the larvæ or caterpillars of a moth, Bombyx mori, as they enter the chrysalisstage of existence.
Thy soul, still covered with its chrysalis shell, confounds as yet the horizon of the eye with the horizon of the heart, and outer elevation with inner, and soars through the physical heaven after the ideal one!
This precocious completion of growth I have observed in many distinguished women, just as if these Psyches should resemble butterflies, which do not grow after coming out of the chrysalis state.
Yes," she said, when the talk drifted that way, "the chrysalis earl has gone.
Somebody found my chrysalis And shut it in a match-box.
Thus from the egg of a butterfly there first emerges a caterpillar, which lives and grows for some time, then changes to a chrysalis and finally to a butterfly.
We also meet with the stumps of wings in the chrysalis of certain ants (Anergates), the males of which have lost their wings.
The caterpillar and the chrysalis belong to the embryonic period.
Not but that there are plenty of fine buildings, public and private; but the town is still much farther back in its chrysalis stage than Melbourne.
At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
In spite of Mrs. Manners, the chrysalis had burst into the butterfly, and Wilmot House had never been so gay.
The resuscitation of the dead could scarcely have startled and awed the courtier more than this abrupt development of life and passion and energy in a man who had hitherto seemed to sleep in the folds of his thought, as a chrysalis in its web.
Just at this moment the chrysalis upon the bed stirred and sat erect.
He now lay like a monster chrysalis beside the half-frozen Peter, who, accordingly, was skating with all his might over the coldest, bleakest of dreamland icebergs.
The chrysalis rolled over, but made no other sign.
The pupa state is perfect; the perfect insect generally creeps out of the chrysalis by a slit taking place down the back.
An intermediate stage exists in which the creature eats no food; it has therefore been compared with the chrysalis of insects.
Make careful drawings of the caterpillar, chrysalis and butterfly.
All through the cold winter they remained in the chrysalis stage stuck to the sides of houses, fence posts and in other protected places, awaiting the first breath of spring.
The chrysalis of the cowgirl had burst and this butterfly had emerged.
The little animal when freed from its chrysalis is still covered with a thin skin, like a little shirt, which has to be pulled off.
I will only repeat here that a chrysalis, we will say, is as much one and the same person with the chrysalis of its preceding generation, as this last is one and the same person with the egg or caterpillar from which it sprang.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chrysalis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: caterpillar; grub; larva; maggot; nymph
