Cocoon Collection (#5)

Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms begin to construct cocoons Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Reeling the cocoons by foot reel Date: circa 1909

Japanese Silk Industry - Storing the Cocoons Date: circa 1910

Japanese Silk Industry - Reeling the Cocoons by Hand-reel Date: circa 1910

Boiling silkworm cocoons. Chinese silk painting, c1650-1726
CHINA: SILK PRODUCTION. Boiling silkworm cocoons. Chinese silk painting, c1650-1726

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Silkworm Moth - Mating on the cocoon. (Bombyx mori) Date:

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Silkworm Moth - Eggs on the cocoon (Bombyx mori) Date:

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Comet Moth / Madagascan Moon Moth - Detail of the silk cocoon (Argema mittrei) Date:

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Silkworm coccoons at an Indian silk farm (Bombyx mori) Date:

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Workers sorting silkworm coccoons in an Indian silkworm factory (Bombyx mori) Date:

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Workers with silkworm coccoons in an Indian silkworm (Bombyx mori) Date:

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Workers sorting silkworm coccoons in an Indian silkworm factory (Bombyx mori) Date:

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Squeeking Silkmoth cocoon (Rhodinia fugax shaanxiana) Date:

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Stag beetle - Nymphosis - Female nymph in its wooden and soil cocoon (Lucanus cervus) Date:

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Stag beetle - Nymphosis - Female nymph in its wooden and soil cocoon (Lucanus cervus) Date:

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Stag beetle - Nymphosis. Female nymph in its wooden and soil cocoon (Lucanus cervus) Date:

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Argiopa - Cocoon (Argiopa bruennichi) Date:

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Nursery-web Spider - Keeping watch over its cocoon hidden under the leaf (Pisaura mirabilis) Date:

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Stag beetle - Nymphosis - Male in its wooden and soil cocoon (Lucanus cervus) Date:

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Black-headed Cardinal Beetle - Nymph in its cocoon (Pyrochroa coccinea) Date:

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Wasp Spider - young spiders in cocoon's silk (Argiope bruennichi) Date:

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Black-headed Cardinal Beetle - nymph in its cocoon ready to become adult (Pyrochroa coccinea) Date:

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Golden Orb-web Spider - Eggs in silk cocoon (Nephila inornata) Date:

Ant (Plagiolepis pygmae) adults, workers with cocoons of sexual stages in nest, Ile St. Martin, Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, May

The Brazilian Silk Worm Exhibit, Philadelphia Exhibition, 1. Aa
The Brazilian Silk Worm Exhibit, Philadelphia Exhibition, 1.A

Lappet Moth (Gastropacha quercifolia) cocoon, attached to hawthorn twig, Oxfordshire, England, June

Six-spot Burnet (Zygaena filipendulae) adult pair, mating on cocoon, Aston Rowant, Buckinghamshire, England, August

Yellow Meadow Ant (Lasius flavus) adult workers, moving cocooned pupae in nest, Powys, Wales, August

Puss Moth (Cerura vinula) cocoon on willow twig, made partly of wood macerated by larva, Dorset, England, July

Larva

Blue Morpho (Morpho peleides), butterfly emerged from cocoon

Parasitic wasp pupae

Larva from Comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album) hanging from a plant, close-up

Bombyx mori (Silkworm), a silk worm spinning its cocoon

Larva and caterpillar of silkworm (bombyx mori), illustration
Zoology - Insects - Lepidoptera - Larva and caterpillar of silkworm (Bombyx mori), illustration

Silkmoths (Bombyx mori) emerging from cocoons

A butterfly with large eye spot a its wing clings to the end of a twig beside the shriveled remnant of its cocoon. Imago, adult, after emerging from pupa

Blue morpho butterfly (Morpho peleides) newly hatched, holding onto cocoon, close-up

Chrysalis skin of a Blue morpho butterfly (Morpho peleides) opening, close-up

Small tortoiseshell butterfly (Aglais urticae) emerging from cocoon

Blue morpho butterfly (Morpho peleides) emerging from cocoon, close-up

Bombyx mori (Silkworm), a silk worm spinning its cocoon

Pupa of butterfly enclosed in cocoon

Chinese oak silk moth (Antheraea perny), cocoon

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