chrysalis

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Look what I found!

Fleur @Fleura (34967) • United Kingdom 16 Aug

I was walking across a field when I noticed a bit of frayed binder twine stuck there among the grass. Obviously it had been left behind when the farmer baled hay earlier in the summer. I picked it up because I didn’t want a cow or...

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It was a long wait!

Fleur @Fleura (34967) • United Kingdom 17 May 25

Back in August last year, as I was pruning our grape vine, I found an elephant hawk moth caterpillar. And since we were all curious to see what the ‘final version’, as it were, would be like, we kept it in a special enclosure. We...

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A poem about forests, flying and other stuff

Stanley W. Shura @stanws (126) • Stoughton, Massachusetts 13 Oct 18

Chrysalis The crystal ball stopped working long ago. No hope nor future can you foresee now. The leafy path seems futile and so slow. No light nor passion will these woods allow. Surrounded so by life, yet heart is empty...

a tree falls in the forest

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Do you know how long a caterpillar spends in its chrysalis?

shelagh77 @shelagh77 (3643) 4 May 07

I must admit that I thought that a caterpillar spent months in the chrysalis, but in fact it spends a mere two weeks before emerging as a beautiful butterfly or moth. Unless it is a clothes moth and I catch it of course. Then...

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