INSECTS' EGGS 147 



shell if you are fortunate enough to have no 

 nettles in your flower-border leaves you for a 

 period while she seeks among the rough herbage 



Fig. 95. Eggs of Privet Hawk-moth. 

 x 25 diameters 



of some waste land for the stinging plant which 

 her young caterpillars must feed upon. The 

 instinct which guides these insects to these parti- 

 cular plants is one of the most interesting in the 

 whole realm of Nature. 



On the other hand, sometimes insects make 

 unpardonable blunders in depositing their eggs in 



