cocoons

"With respect to the cocoons spun by the different larvæ, both workers and drones spin _complete cocoons_, or inclose themselves on every side; royal larvæ construct only _imperfect cocoons_, open behind, and enveloping only the head, thorax, and first ring of the abdomen; and

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

The real problem with everybody insulating themselves into these ideological cocoons is that, in the end, if everybody is an expert then nobody is an expert.

We’re all experts 2010

The “loner artist,” on the one hand a capitalist plot to ensure we all stay in our cocoons, is simultaneously a capitalist dupe, resisting the deeper satisfactions of communal life.

t=e=m=p=e=r=a=m=e=n=t : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

One of the best things about spring, in addition to people emerging from their winter cocoons, is the music you get to indulge in, those songs that sound like people emerging from their cocoons.

She's tearing apart my world (Music (For Robots)) 2006

One of the best things about spring, in addition to people emerging from their winter cocoons, is the music you get to indulge in, those songs that sound like people emerging from their cocoons.

Music (For Robots): April 2006 Archives 2006

Groaning silently, the two Berzerkers writhed on the ground as the tendrils encased them in cocoons.

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Shard Reaper’s Review Forum 2009

Waste silks include the pierced cocoons, that is, those from which the moth has come out by making the hole and breaking the fibers in one end of the cocoon; the waste made in the filatures in producing raw or reeled silk, chiefly the outside fiber of the cocoon and the inside next the chrysalis; and also the waste made in manufacture.

Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades

In this string of cocoons, which is the oldest, which the youngest?

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

It's a tiny hotel, with just 37 rooms (called cocoons, bungalows and villas) and a restaurant, spa and (sigh) champagne bar and the aim is relaxation - the hotel has apparently been inspired by the lavender fields of southern France, and the owner has promised it will be

HotelChatter - 2010

The job of waiting up to bow and welcome the geisha home almost always fell to the most junior of the "cocoons" — as the young geisha-in-training were often called.

Memoirs of a Geisha Golden, Arthur, 1957- 1997