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A cocoon is a casing spun of silk by many moth caterpillars, and numerous other holometabolous insect larvae as a protective covering for the pupa.
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In that instant, the Phoenix Force is overwhelmed and believes itself to be Jean Grey and places Jean's dying body in a healing cocoon.
Jose Rizal delivered a speech in 1884 at a banquet and mentioned " the Oriental chrysalis ... is about to leave its cocoon ", comparing the emergence of a " new Philippines " with that of butterfly metamorphosis.
Silk is an animal textile made from the fibres of the cocoon of the Chinese silkworm which is spun into a smooth fabric prized for its softness.
eastern bagworm, common bagworm, common basket worm, or North American bagworm, is a moth that spins its cocoon in its larval life, decorating it with bits of plant material from the trees on which it feeds.
If the animal is allowed to survive after spinning its cocoon and through the pupa phase of its life cycle, it will release proteolytic enzymes to make a hole in the cocoon so that it can emerge as a moth.
The cocoon is made of a thread of raw silk from 300 to about 900 meters ( 1, 000 to 3, 000 feet ) long.
It is only when the radiation pressure from a star drives away its ' cocoon ' that it becomes visible.
If the Chao has been treated well, the cocoon is pink and the Chao is reincarnated as an egg ; the cycle then restarts and the Chao remembers the player.
Moth pupae are usually dark in color and either formed in underground cells, loose in the soil, or their pupa is contained in a protective silk case called a cocoon.
Many moth caterpillars shed the larval hairs ( setae ) and incorporate them into the cocoon ; if these are urticating hairs then the cocoon is also irritating to the touch.
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There are several reasons for this: firstly, they differ from the domesticated varieties in color and texture and are therefore less uniform ; secondly, cocoons gathered in the wild have usually had the pupa emerge from them before being discovered so the silk thread that makes up the cocoon has been torn into shorter lengths ; and thirdly, many wild cocoons are covered in a mineral layer that stymies attempts to reel from them long strands of silk.
These factors all contribute to the ability of the whole cocoon to be unravelled as one continuous thread, permitting a much stronger cloth to be woven from the silk.
A technique known as demineralizing allows the mineral layer around the cocoon to be removed, leaving only variability in color as a barrier from creating a commercial silk industry based on wild silks in parts of the world where wild silkmoths thrive, such as Africa and South America.
Most moth caterpillars spin a cocoon made of silk within which they metamorphose into the pupal stage.
The larvae will then enter the pupa phase of their life cycle and enclose themselves in a cocoon made up of raw silk produced by the salivary glands.
The major objectives of silkworm breeding are improving fecundity ( the egg laying capacity of a breed ), healthiness of larvae, quantity of cocoon and silk production, disease resistance, etc.
The silk in the cocoon of the silk moth can be unravelled to get silk fibre which makes this moth the most economically important of all Lepidopterans.
After consuming the edible parts of the spider, the larva spins a silk cocoon and pupatesusually emerging as an adult the next summer.
Some insect larvae ( including silkworms ) extrude silk to make a protective cocoon for their metamorphosis.
It can be found on and around the burrow entrance and in webbing for protection ( for example, some of Theraphosinae subfamily species include these hairs in cocoon silk ).
# When the silkworms are about 10, 000 times heavier than when they hatched, they are now ready to spin a silk cocoon.
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Mr. Podger opened his cocoon and emerged, tucking Alacrity under his arm to bring her in by the fire.
" He maintained that he had used the club " for massage only ... and by that I mean a totally straight one " and as " a kind of cocoon where I could shut myself away for an hour and think ".
Insects that pupate in a cocoon must escape from it, and they do this either by the pupa cutting its way out, or by secreting fluids that soften the cocoon.
The town is populated by other insects, including two brash American flies, Clem ( William Sanderson ) and Burt ( Michael Stanton ), a hyperactive flea named Lencho ( Cheech Marin ), a cynical artist termite named Eaton Woode ( Charles Adler ), a butterfly named Rosa ( Candi Milo ) and her boyfriend Miguel who is still in his cocoon, Amelia ( Joan Van Ark ), an enthusiastic damselfly.
Later, when Phoenix took her own life, a part of the Phoenix Force — rejected by Jean in her cocoon because of the memories it contained of destroying a solar system — entered the clone and gave it life.
The character first appeared in Fantastic Four # 66 ( Sept. 1967 ) ( in cocoon form ) and # 67 ( Oct. 1967 ) ( in humanoid form ), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
Him's cocoon is recovered by the High Evolutionary, who declares that he will be known to humans as " Warlock " and enlists his aid in ridding Counter-Earth of the evil Man Beast.
Warlock is incapacitated by the backlash of souls killed during the " Annihilation " war, and re-enters hibernation in a cocoon.
However, Him sacrificed the majority of these powers by prematurely emerging from his cocoon in order to defend the High Evolutionary from an assault by the Man-Beast.
Unlike the African species, Protopterus, it does not survive dry seasons by secreting a mucous cocoon and burying itself in the mud.
At the end of the first year, as power transfers from Sinclair to Sheridan, Delenn transforms herself, undergoing a strange and painful hibernation inside a cocoon created by an ancient device.
The murder of Mr. Bannister was engineered by the villainous Prosecutor, who was apparently killed by an insectoid villain in a cocoon.
Character Gideon Wyborn explains the choice by noting that its caterpillar " doesn't spin a cocoon ... it just grows armor on the inside ... before the change.
This process is achieved by the worm through a dense fluid secreted from its gland structural glands, resulting in the fibre of the cocoon.
# The silk is obtained from the undamaged cocoons by brushing the cocoon to find the outside end of the filament.
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