144 MINUTE MARVELS OF NATURE 



moths. These are the insects which we admire 

 most and recognise with the greatest ease ; but, 

 common as many of them are, comparatively few 

 of us have ever observed the wonderful eggs 



Hig. 92. Eggb of a peacock parasite. 



40 diameters 



which they deposit upon almost every plant that 

 oTOws in our o-ardens and fields. 



If we carefully examine the leaves and stems 

 of any plants during the summer months, and of 

 some during the winter, we are almost sure to 

 find some eggs of butterflies or moths ; and we 

 have only to place tiiese under a good magnifying 

 lens, or low- power microscope, to get revelations 

 of some of the most interesting of Nature's minute 

 marvels. If we like to take the matter seriously, 

 a prodigious field of study is opened to us. 



