The plants it depends on for food will shift their growing seasons, so that when the butterfly eggs hatch, the caterpillars have little to eat.

There are pictures of a butterfly egg, smaller than a period, contrasted with an ostrich egg, bigger than a softball.

The idea is to collect butterfly eggs and nurture them until they can be sent off to zoos that have butterfly houses or sold as dead specimens to collectors.

And the scientist, not a large man, ran toward the sound, which was being made by three all-terrain vehicles whose drivers seemed not to care that they might be running over butterfly eggs, rare plants, nesting holes of threatened snakes.

The most common colors in butterfly eggs are yellow and green.

Even though there may be thousands of butterfly eggs in a region, only a few survive to become larvae.

And almost immediately a rumor swept the land that butterfly eggs would get you high.

Guides may also show butterfly eggs, caterpillars, and chrysalids and identify specific plants that are favored by each species.

Opportunistic predators such as ants and birds prey on butterfly eggs, caterpillars, pupae and adult individuals.

Infinitesimal grubs, newly hatched from butterfly eggs and barely six inches long, furnished them with tidbits.