chrysalis

For spring 2027, you created this fantastical garden populated by insects, beginning with a chrysalis and ending with the emergence of butterflies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

"The caterpillars look like leaves, the chrysalis like bird droppings, and the adults stay high in trees," he explained.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

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

She would emerge like a butterfly from a chrysalis.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

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

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 William S. Furneaux

When I kept caterpillars, or rather raised butterflies, they never were tired of watching the chrysalides, hoping to see the expected butterflies.

From Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mary E. Mann

There is another feature concerning the chrysalides worthy of note.

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

One summer I watched the larvæ of the swallow-tailed butterfly through their different stages, and reserved two chrysalides to develop into thep.

From Wild Nature Won By Kindness by Elizabeth Brightwen

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

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