Check it out!
As I was taking photos of the flowers and foliage of these wild sunflower plants (Helianthus simulans), I noticed this cluster of eggs on the underside of one of the upper leaves.
Butterfly eggs on underside of leaf
While I cannot positively identify these eggs as butterfly eggs, or identify them to a species, their shape and location gives every indication that they should be butterfly eggs.
Wild sunflower
Even in an enlarged view, these eggs are tiny, but nonetheless very interesting.
Butterfly eggs – enlarged view
I assume that the row-like pattern of placement is distinctive for the species that laid the eggs. I further presume that the placement of the eggs on the underside of the leaf was also a deliberate choice.
For the future caterpillars and butterflies it is probably a good thing that a curious photographer, rather than a hungry chickadee, found these eggs.
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Butterfly Eggs
Check it out!
As I was taking photos of the flowers and foliage of these wild sunflower plants (Helianthus simulans), I noticed this cluster of eggs on the underside of one of the upper leaves.
Butterfly eggs on underside of leaf
While I cannot positively identify these eggs as butterfly eggs, or identify them to a species, their shape and location gives every indication that they should be butterfly eggs.
Wild sunflower
Even in an enlarged view, these eggs are tiny, but nonetheless very interesting.
Butterfly eggs – enlarged view
I assume that the row-like pattern of placement is distinctive for the species that laid the eggs. I further presume that the placement of the eggs on the underside of the leaf was also a deliberate choice.
For the future caterpillars and butterflies it is probably a good thing that a curious photographer, rather than a hungry chickadee, found these eggs.