Eggs of a Caligo owl butterfly.

Green Hills Butterfly Ranch, Belize
Inside a laboratory nest a young fire ant queen (Solenopsis invicta) tends to her first eggs.

Laboratory colony at the University of Central Florida, USA
Inside a laboratory nest a young fire ant queen (Solenopsis invicta) tends to her first eggs.

Laboratory colony at the University of Central Florida, USA
An alate aphid with her newborns on the underside of a pipevine leaf.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
The hatching of a young silkworm Bombyx mori.
Arilus cristatus (Reduviidae) wheel bug nymph and hatching egg cluster.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
The orange balls in the Reticulitermes nest are a fungus that assumes the size, texture, and chemical signature of termite eggs. Termites, being blind, can't tell the difference and care for the fungus as if they were their own eggs. 

Bell Smith Springs, Illinois, USA
Sand wasps (Crabronidae) mating.

California, USA
A male harvester ant (Aphaenogaster albisetosa) launches himself on a morning mating flight.

Green Valley, Arizona, USA
Eggs of a Caligo owl butterfly.

Green Hills Butterfly Ranch, Belize
Eggs of a Caligo owl butterfly.

Green Hills Butterfly Ranch, Belize
Eggs of a Caligo owl butterfly.

Green Hills Butterfly Ranch, Belize
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