Geophilomorph centipede

Mother with eggs. Sierra Nevada, California, USA.

Abedus

A male Abedus water bug carries hatched and hatching eggs on his back. Stebbins Reserve, California, USA

Diapheromera femorata

An egg emerges from the abdomen of a Northern Walking Stick Diapheromera femorata. The eggs fall to the forest floor where they overwinter before hatching. Illinois, USA

Diapheromera femorata

Stick insect eggs often mimic plant seeds. These Diapheromera eggs are dispersed by ants. Illinois, USA

Euborellia annulipes

A female Ring-legged Earwig guards her eggs. Among insects, earwigs are unusually attentive mothers. Gainesville, Florida, USA.

Euborellia annulipes

A mother earwig guards her eggs. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas, USA.

Reticulitermes

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

Reticulitermes

A newborn termite hatches into a mix of fungal egg-mimics and termite eggs. Bell Smith Springs, Illinois, USA

Tenodera sinensis egg case

Mantises overwinter as eggs in thick cases glued to low vegetation. This is an egg case of the Chinese mantis, Tenodera sinensis. Urbana, Illinois, USA.

Pachypsylla

A spring aggregation of hackberry psyllids feeds and lays eggs on a host plant. Austin, Texas, USA.

First and second instar ground pearls, Eurhizococcus, on a cassava tuber. Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Alydidae

A cluster of bug eggs on the underside of a Pavonia rock rose. Austin, Texas, USA.

Chelinidea vittiger

Cactus coreids usually lay their eggs in rows on their host plant, but they aren't fussy and will also oviposit on nearby vegetation such as grass blades. Austin, Texas, USA.

Anasa tristis

Squash bug eggs. Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.

Cimex lectularius

Bed bug with eggs. Laboratory culture at the University of Kentucky.

Anastatus sp.

A parasitoid wasp (Eupelmidae: Anastatus) oviposits into a stink bug egg. Austin, Texas, USA.

Trissolcus sp.

A closer look at this clutch of tropical stink bug eggs reveals a small parasitic wasp lurking at the lower left. Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.

Papilio polyxenes

A black swallowtail egg on garden dill. Austin, Texas, USA.

Danaus plexippus

Monarch butterfly egg on Sullivant's milkweed. Urbana, Illinois, USA.

Danaus plexippus

A monarch butterfly egg on the underside of a milkweed leaf. Sand Ridge State Forest, Illinois, USA

Agraulis incarnata

Eggs of a gulf fritillary on passionvine. Austin, Texas, USA.

Agraulis incarnata

Eggs of a gulf fritillary on passionvine. Austin, Texas, USA.

Blue Morpho

Eggs of the morpho butterfly, Morpho peleides. Green Hills Butterfly Ranch, Cayó District, Belize.

Morpho peleides

Eggs of the morpho butterfly, Morpho peleides. Green Hills Butterfly Ranch, Cayó District, Belize.