John Hull Grundy Lecture: Eggs – The Neglected Insects

I am grateful for this privilege of honouring the memory of John Hull Grundy, one of the outstanding teachers of medical entomology.I have chosen to discuss insect eggs for a number of reasons.Firstly, they are certainly neglected, even to the point that, while most textbooks • of applied entomology contain pictures of the larva and adult of the species described, and of the pupa if there is one, eggs -if they are figured at all -are usually 'a characterless blob.An egg is just as much a living insect