i 3 4 MINUTE MARVELS OF NATURE 



or cream-coloured eggs, winged, and honeycombed 

 with minute hexagonal pits (see Fig. 85). In 



Fig. 85. The eggs of the common hou=e-fly. x 25 diameters 



warm weather these remain about a day before 

 hatching, and are just visible to the eye as tiny 

 white specks ; but it is to be feared that the 



