Other butterflies may lay their eggs in the spring and have them hatch in the summer.

The butterfly then hatches out and lays more eggs.

And one of those butterflies can lay a good 200 or 300 eggs.

After mating, the female butterfly lays eggs - usually between 50 and 1,000.

The adult butterflies only lay one set of eggs.

A butterfly lay dead on the balcony floor.

Like the monarch, this butterfly lays its eggs on milkweed plants.

Butterfly gardening is often done to invite those butterflies and moths to lay eggs as well.

Most butterflies can't help but lay eggs if they're in the sun and they're touching a plant.

Female butterflies, if they see what appears to be an egg on a new stem, will avoid it and lay elsewhere.