The Life of an Insect being a history of the changes of insects from the egg to the perfect being.
Chapter III.--_Life begins in the Egg._--Spring
Time--Influence of Heat and Cold--Eggs resist great Cold--The time of Hatching--Escape of the new Creature--Connexion between Plants and Insects--Changes in the Egg--A Spider's Mother's love--Experiment with two Spiders--Anecdote of an Earwig--Enormous number of Eggs of different Insects 57