Dummy Eggs

Dummy eggs are defensive mechanism employed by some plants such as passion flower plants. These plants produce dummy eggs so that insects such as butterflies would lay thier real eggs elsewhere. Dummy eggs will never hatch but dummy eggs fool butterflies and other species into going and lay their eggs elsewhere. Below are pictures of dummy eggs on passion flower plants.

Dummy eggs look like real eggs but will never hatch.

Producing dummy eggs is a defensive mechanism, facts about dummy eggs.

Dummy eggs on passion flower plant with a butterfly thinking of laying eggs but decided not to since the passion flower leave is already full of eggs (dummy eggs).