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Si Ling-Chi, empress of China, developed the process by which thread is removed from the cocoon of a silkworm.

Si Ling-Chi, empress of China, developed the process by which thread is removed from the cocoon of a silkworm.

A butterfly will emerge from its cocoon after a certain amount of time.

In this stage the insect curls itself up under the protection of a silken cocoon like the tussock moth, or of a curled leaf like the brown-tail moth, or it may be entirely unsheltered like the pupa of the elm leaf beetle.

The corolla has five petals, which do not fall off when they wither, but roll up so as to look like the cocoon of an insect.

The high-tech house creates "a technological cocoon that anticipates your every need and protects you not only from danger, but from serendipity as well.

--Associated Press, May 31, 1996 But the notion that Dole is just now exiting the Wound cocoon is a perennial press fantasy.

"Wrapped and totally immersed within the competitive cocoon of academic medicine, living every day at a great distance from the 'real' world, I was all but oblivious to the fact that a woman's movement had started, and, selfishly, had no idea how other women in my own world were faring.

Reekie Get Out of Your Cocoon As a Eurocrat in my cubicle at the European Commission, sitting on the ergonomic chair I "borrowed" from a secretary when mine collapsed last year, I was wondering who got those plush suites with leather chairs that Gregg Easterbrook referred to in "I Have Seen the Future of Europe .

To this category belong the threads which the Spider stretches, and the cocoon with which the caterpillar surrounds himself to shelter his metamorphosis.

He was endeavoring with live specimens to find a moth that would produce a cocoon of commercial value to America; and a sudden gust of wind blew out of his study, through an open window, his living and breeding specimens of the gypsy moth.

We see this when we think of the caterpillar, and how she repairs her cocoon until she yields to exhaustion, of the bird, and how she will lay herself to death, of the disquiet and grief displayed by all migratory animals if they are prevented from migrating.


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