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

Its iridescent casting mold looks almost like a chrysalis awaiting the emergence of a monumental butterfly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

"By the time we emerged from the chrysalis, we were fully formed," says Georgia.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2023

His face looked ready to break out of its chrysalis.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell

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

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 Wild Nature Won By Kindness by Brightwen, Elizabeth

The butterflies of the summer brood emerge shortly after, but the chrysalides of the next brood hybernate till the following spring.

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

The chrysalides terminate behind in a sharp spine, and are always to be found buried in the soil.

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

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

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

As if newly emerged from their chrysalises, the butterflies gathered their strength and began to fly.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall