The Amazing Eggs of the Insect World

These eggs may look like alien eggs in science fiction movies, but these eggs are really real - these eggs are the eggs of insects. It is life, but certainly life is not as we know it. Look at the amazing eggs of the alien world around us.

The Lacewing eggs below are attached to leaves or stems with a thin silk piece to place them. If you survive the danger, what comes out of the eggs when hatching is a nightmare.

Eggs from eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterflies like small green pearls. The egg width can be up to 1.2mm which makes them one of the largest eggs of the butterfly species. The earliest three instar (arthropod developmental stages) of the caterpillar, seen to resemble a tai bird - for one obvious reason: if they look like tai, then the predator is uninterested and away.

The egg of the gulf fritillary butterfly (Agraulis vanillae) looks as though something far more deadly than the caterpillar will emerge from it (similar to the egg in Ellen Ripley's "Alien" film).

often spawn singly. After they hatch a solitary caterpillar will eat the leaves from their host plants. They only come out at night and when old, the caterpillar will build a shelter from the leaves to hide away during the day.

This is a minimido cupido egg, the wingspan can be as small as 16mm - so you can imagine how small their eggs are. Their eggs are less than half a millimeter. After the egg is placed the female will rub her belly in a vetch flower where the eggs are placed. This is to prevent other females from using the same plant to spawn. The reason? Their larvae are highly cannibalistic in their first instar.