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

But Nirupama Rao, former Indian ambassador to Beijing and Washington, says India is "a titan in chrysalis" - too large and ambitious to bind itself to any single great power.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025

Also like Mozart, Tao emerged from the often-precarious chrysalis of childhood as a prodigy to become a complex artist, tirelessly curious to seek out new challenges.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024

I think of the flower chrysalis and the banners flashing her new face.

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

When full-grown they spin for themselves a silken covering, within which they turn into chrysalides.

From On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by Sir John Lubbock

The caterpillars are to be found in June, and the chrysalides in July.

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

Caterpillars which are about to be transformed into chrysalides weave a cocoon, a very close dwelling in which they can go through their metamorphosis far from exterior troubles.

From The Industries of Animals by Frédéric Houssay

Maryette leaned over and looked into the wooden box, where lay the chrysalides.

From Barbarians by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

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

“Most butterflies and moths overwinter in the landscape either as eggs, caterpillars, chrysalises or adults,” says Barton.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 12, 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