The island marble butterfly spends the majority of its life—10-12 months—in a cocoon. At this stage, it’s a living bug soup. If you touch it, it’ll move. Gary Tarelton

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Technically that's a chrysalis (lepidopteran pupa). A cocoon is a tough covering produced by most moths to protect the pupa.
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There are wonderful, dedicated people doing things like this all over the world.
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If they're going to die, they'd better do it and decrease the surplus population.

- A Republican

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