Chrysalis
A chrysalis is the pupa of a butterfly. The word chrysalis comes from the Greek language word for gold because butterflies often have a brighter pupa than other insects.
Chrysalis Media
- Cetoine global.jpg
Pupa of the rose chafer beetle, Cetonia aurata
- Mosquito Pupa.jpg
Tumbler (pupa) of a mosquito. Unlike most pupae, tumblers can swim around actively.
- Hercus fontinalis eclosion.jpg
Adult Hercus fontinalis emerging from cocoon
- Papilio dardanus emerging.ogv
Eclosion of Papilio dardanus
- A pupa of Euploea core (Cramer, 1780) - Common Crow WLB.jpg
Common crow butterfly (Euploea core) chrysalis illustrating the Ancient Greek origin of the term: χρυσός (chrysós) for gold
- Dwarf birch spinner (Eriogaster arbusculae) cocoon Dovrefjell.jpg
Dwarf birch spinner moth (Eriogaster arbusculae) cocoon
- Caterpillars cocoon.jpg
The tough brown cocoon of an emperor gum moth
- Eupeodes americanus.jpg
Puparium of Eupeodes americanus
- Van de Kamp et al. (2018) Movie 1 - Isolating a parasitoid from a fossilized puparium.webm
Parasitoid wasp Xenomorphia resurrecta inside a fossilized fly puparium, as revealed by X-ray microtomography
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