| I would eventually watch some of them don a mantle of leaves and begin the process of weaving their own silk cocoons. |
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| Male and female cocoons were separated in the field by size and in the lab by weight. |
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| It then feeds them through grim looking tubes and keeps them immersed in gelatinous liquid in cocoons. |
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| Larvae remain in these cocoons through the winter and pupate in early spring. |
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| She had been given the strange looking stones by the villagers, who believed them to be insect cocoons and items imbued with sacred significance. |
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| The larvae complete their feeding in less than two weeks and then estivate in cocoons, which they construct in the ground. |
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| In the sexual race, worms have hermaphroditic sexual organs, and copulate and then lay cocoons filled with several fertilized eggs. |
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| Moths such as the luna and polyphemus spend the winter months as pupae in leaf-wrapped cocoons. |
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| Later in the season, the caterpillars re-emerge to spin cocoons and overwinter under the loose bark of the trees. |
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| A few women expressed willingness to train in sericulture and sought the help of the Sericulture Department to market the cocoons. |
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| Arctic as well as temperate chironomid midges build special winter cocoons that are distinct from those made in summer. |
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| Tussah silk, often called shantung, is made from the cocoons of wild tussah silkworms that eat oak and juniper leaves. |
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| Silk moth cocoons are made of a layer of silk that the caterpillar exudes from glands in its mouth. |
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| In Nest 1, the oldest cells held mature larvae ready to spin cocoons and medium-sized larvae. |
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| The facility is equipped with 24 treatment rooms for massages, therapeutic bodywork, facials, conditioning body scrubs and cocoons. |
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| The gelid air cocoons the teams in the intensity of their own efforts. |
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| As reelers, the boys dip their hands into scalding water and palpate the silk cocoons, sensing by touch whether the fine silk threads have loosened enough to be unwound. |
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| While rodents often succeed in opening cocoons and extracting the nutritious pupae, birds rarely invest the time and effort needed to pierce the silken armor. |
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| We watched a group of airborne insects break out of cocoons two stories above the street, crawl down the side of the building, then back up again as butterflies. |
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| Males in the cavity-nesting house wren frequently add arthropod cocoons to their nests during building, possibly as an ornamental cue for female choice. |
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| Golden cocoons are tiny doodads shipped in oversize cartons, sometimes with enough paper, bubble wrap or airbags to cradle a priceless vase. |
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| The silk farmers then heat the cocoons to kill them, leaving some to metamorphose into moths to breed the next generation of caterpillars. |
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| After lunch we decided to festoon the tree with garlands of electric loons, moons, spoons, puccoons, cocoons, bassoons, baboons and vinegaroons. |
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| The protein fiber of silk is composed mainly of fibroin and is produced by certain insect larvae to form cocoons. |
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| He prised a skep from its stool and held it out, inverted, showing the dirty wreck of combs, with the vile grubs spinning their cocoons. |
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| Harvested cocoons are then soaked in boiling water to soften the sericin holding the silk fibers together in a cocoon shape. |
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| This antling was, as indeed all the larvae and cocoons appeared to be, of the dwarf caste. |
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| In the Caterpillar Room, some of the world's largest caterpillars are on show with cocoons, giant silkmoths and shining pupae hanging on the plants. |
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| They are reported as primary or secondary parasitoids of different holometabolous insects, usually concealed hosts protected by cocoons, galls, or other plant tissue. |
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