INSECTS' EGGS 



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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 



I'lg- 95- ^^ggs of Privet Ilawl^-nioth. 

 X 25 diametei's 



of some waste land tor the stinging j^lant which 

 her young caterpillars must feed upon. The 

 instinct which guides these insects to these parti- 

 culai 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 



