Dormant as chrysalides, a thousand thoughts that lie. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
L and I waited a bit to see the window of chrysalides. From Wordnik.com. [24 hours in Niagara Falls] Reference
The larvæ burrow into the ground in September to form the chrysalides, hence there should be soil in the vivarium in which they are kept. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
One summer I watched the larvæ of the swallow-tailed butterfly through their different stages, and reserved two chrysalides to develop into the perfect insect. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
The tameness of these butterflies I ascribed in great measure to the fact of their having been hatched from chrysalides, and having therefore never known the sweets of liberty. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
Several strips of linen were scattered over the floor, with the customary litter of dried leaves, dust, refuse brought by rodents, cobwebs and the cast-off chrysalides of insects. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
In the month of March, the chrysalides burst through the skin, and drop on the ground, when they may be seen crawling in immense numbers along the deer paths as they pass from west to east. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2)] Reference
Then, too, it gave him an opportunity to watch the development of a good many of the cocoons and chrysalides that the nature study club had placed in glasses in a window of the reading room. From Wordnik.com. [Buffalo Roost] Reference
We justify our present discomfort with the promise of a bright future of flowers and sunshine and gladdest life, though we know that in the garden of art there are many chrysalides and few butterflies. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Ship] Reference
I could not tell whether the insect moulted its skin, as it was always hidden, but in July, after four months 'feeding, the ant-lions changed into chrysalides, which looked like perfectly round balls of sand. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
Monarch Watch gave away more than 450 monarch chrysalides. From Wordnik.com. [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference
Maryette leaned over and looked into the wooden box, where lay the chrysalides. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarians] Reference
As the silk is reeled off the chrysalides should be taken out of the basin, otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
I had 91 chrysalides and they have been emerging for the last week .. between 6 - 10 a day. From Wordnik.com. [Mélange] Reference
They had 10 caterpillars form chrysalides and turn into butterflies right before their very eyes. From Wordnik.com. [DesMoinesRegister.com - NEWS] Reference
A like chance presented with the pupæ of their slave race was eagerly seized, and the chrysalides carried off. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.] Reference
(I am told the correct plural is chrysalides, but life would be dull indeed if one always used the correct plural.). From Wordnik.com. [Harding's Luck] Reference
Why, the robin's nest might be discovered by some one else, and my grubs and chrysalides would come to perfection without me. From Wordnik.com. [Polly A New-Fashioned Girl] Reference
It was rather a difficult matter to ascertain clearly if the ants were actually excavating the chrysalides from amongst the débris. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.] Reference
All the rest of the exposition was delivered by serious space bugs and serious space zealots, talking about chrysalides and the like. From Wordnik.com. [GameSetWatch] Reference
Once warm weather ends, the netting draped on the butterfly house's metal frame will be removed and the chrysalides covered in hard capsules will overwinter. From Wordnik.com. Reference
This program for children in kindergarten through Grade five will give participants a close-up view of Monarch caterpillars, chrysalides and adult butterflies. From Wordnik.com. [IndyStar.com Top Stories] Reference
She had boxes full of chrysalides which she fondly hoped would emerge in the spring into perfect insects, and she had made quite a good little collection of beetles. From Wordnik.com. [The Luckiest Girl in the School] Reference
Visitors also were able to walk through the area's butterfly gardens to see them in their various stages, from caterpillars to chrysalides to fully emerged Monarchs. From Wordnik.com. [Home News Tribune - News] Reference
Then ensued, for the second time, the seizure of the chrysalides, which, however, were to be seen packed together in a secure position and already partly covered with particles of earth and sand. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.] Reference
Come witness the butterfly life cycle as tiny eggs hatch into crawling, chewing caterpillars, which then encase themselves in jewel-like chrysalides and emerge as sipping, flying adult butterflies. From Wordnik.com. [Feed of Eventbrite Events] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.] Reference
Do chrysalides become caterpillars!. From Wordnik.com. [Michael] Reference
"Butterflies," softly; "or, I should say, chrysalides.". From Wordnik.com. [A Splendid Hazard] Reference
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