Eats Shoots and Leaves

[Mellifera Crofter]

... so where are the eggshells, Is it an egg?? and I think the correct term is it ecloses. ...

GG, I couldn't find 'ecloses' in any dictionary - only 'eclose' which is a verb meaning 'to hatch', and mostly used in relation to insects hatching from an egg or emerging from a pupal state. In the case of bees, the chorion (the egg 'shell') just disappears after the larva has emerged. Read Celia Davis's book, 'The Honey Bee inside out'.

Kitta

[Greengage]

OK will check it out. tks. I added the extra s for more than one, eclose to hatch, ecloses hatches Im making this up as I go along to see where it leads.

[Mellifera Crofter]

Sorry, my mistake. I now see you did use 'eclose' as a verb.
Kitta