"A Little Egg Lay on a Leaf"

How many times have you read The Very Hungry Caterpillar aloud?

It's got to be in the hundreds for me. Seems like every single one of my kids has had a time when that book was the favorite above all others.

But in all these years, I've never actually seen a real caterpillar egg—until now.

Can you see it? The little white dot on the underside of the leaf, quite near the stem. I watched the butterfly lay this egg and immediately afterward I ran inside for the camera, so this photo was taken no more t