chrysalis

Trefry likened this awkward time of life to the stage in a butterfly’s development when a caterpillar disappears inside a chrysalis and dissolves into goo before reforming into something entirely new.

From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2025

Nearly every one of those caterpillars at some point drops from the tree canopy to overwinter or create a chrysalis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Some may overwinter as adults, others in their immature stage as grubs, caterpillars or nymphs, while others will be in the pupal stage like a chrysalis or cocoon.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

"It was a really long incubation period, but by the time we emerged from the chrysalis, we were fully formed," says Australian-born bassist Georgia Davies.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2024

They wrap around her small, squirming body, until she's swaddled inside a pink chrysalis like a writhing worm.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

If you spent a week in the dry forest as a child, examining chrysalides and ocelot droppings, you might, as an adult, see the forest as something other than a purely economic resource.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2015

He generally has heaps of caterpillars and chrysalides, which are turning into moths and butterflies for his collection.

From The Fortunes of Philippa A School Story by Angela Brazil

In the fall they turned into chrysalides, which I kept all the winter.

From Harper's Young People, September 28, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Why, the robin’s nest might be discovered by some one else, and my grubs and chrysalides would come to perfection without me.

From Polly A New-Fashioned Girl by L. T. Meade

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.

From Butterflies and Moths (British) by William S. Furneaux

The world’s top AI companies are now emerging from their private-market chrysalises to sell shares via initial public offerings.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

For instance, well-meaning people have bought monarch-rearing kits online and even taken monarch butterfly chrysalises out of the wild to rear indoors.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 4, 2023

Then they transition to pupae, or chrysalises, for a week or two before emerging, or eclosing, for a short, winged adulthood.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

They lived in a mesh cage and grew bigger, much like the hero of Carle’s book, until they crawled and wiggled toward the top of the container, turning themselves into chrysalises.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2021

“In these collections, I saw countless other insects, but in a manner that lack both their origin and how they reproduced, that is to say how they changed from caterpillars to chrysalises and so on.”

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman