Roads End Naturalist

Exploring the natural world as we wander at the end of the road

Tag: insect eggs

  • Egg Patterns

    There is no better designer than nature. ~Alexander McQueen While out in the yard looking at the tent caterpillars the other day, Melissa turned around and saw an interesting pattern on the trunk of a small tree. The pattern and details of the egg tops told us it was the egg mass of a Wheelbug, Read more…

    Written by

    Mike Dunn

  • Hatching

    The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell. ~Zora Neale Hurston A quick update on the tulip-tree silk moth eggs from my last post – they hatched! The moth laid eggs inside the container on the night of May 19. They started hatching early in the morning Read more…

    Written by

    Mike Dunn