Interesting Facts About Eggs
The egg stage lasts 4 to 10 days in most butterflies.- Female butterflies are able to mate as soon as they emerge from their chrysalis.
- Eggs are deposited as soon as they’re fertilized.
- Butterflies can lay between 100 to 4,000 eggs.
- Eggs are laid on or in the vicinity of the butterfly's host plant.
- Eggs can be laid inside plant tissues or attached to stems of plants or the underside of a host leaf.
- Butterfly eggs are fixed to plants with special glue which hardens rapidly. (The nature of this glue is still unknown).
- Pores on the egg's surface allow the caterpillar embryo to breathe.
- The egg may change color just before it’s ready to hatch.
- Hepialids and some Nymphalids drop their eggs during flight.