Soon I'll Be Trivia Quiz

These snails are freshwater inhabitants, found in the Americas and Caribbean. Other species are native to Africa and Asia. It has been introduced to other regions, such as Hawaii and Taiwan, initially in the hope of establishing a market in edible snails, but has proved to be a pest, destroying food crops. The EU banned the importing of them in 2012.

The snails are scavengers and are popular additions to home aquariums where they help keep the tank clean. The distinctive pink eggs are laid out of water to protect them from predators. Other snails also lay eggs but these are mostly white in colour.

The American robin is actually a member of the thrush family but has a reddish orange breast. It was called a robin because of this resemblance to the robin found in Europe, which belongs to the flycatcher family.

These robins are prolific breeders, starting early in the season and sometimes having as many as three broods during the months of April to July. The eggs are a distinctive blue colour - European robins lay cream, white or pale brown eggs.

This clump of eggs is typical of the spawn laid by many species of frog and can often be found in ponds and streams, although some species lay theirs in vegetation or even bury them. The eggs hatch into tadpoles, the larval stage of development, before making a transition into the adult frog.

The metamorphosis takes place over only one day in most species, although the new adult may still retain the tadpole's tail for a while until it is absorbed into the body.

This caterpillar is the larval stage of Vanessa atalanta, the red admiral butterfly. The first stage of development is an egg, but these are not very distinctive, so I've given you the next stage. The size of the one in the photo indicates it is at a late stage of development and will soon become a chrysalis from which the butterfly will emerge. The eggs are usually laid on stinging nettles.

Red admirals are found in North and Central America, across Europe and in cooler, temperate, regions of the Caribbean and Africa. They have black wings with red stripes running from top to bottom and white spots near the wing tips.

The sand might have given you a clue that this is a clutch of sea turtle eggs. The female turtle digs a hole on a beach in which to lay her eggs before covering them with sand and various items to hide them. The eggs are left to their own devices and the baby hatchlings emerge about two months later. They then have to dig out of the sand and find their way to the sea while evading predators.

The gender of the hatchlings depends on the temperature of the sand. A high temperature is needed for females and a lower one for males.

The size of the egg probably made this one easy. The ostrich is the largest bird living in the twenty-first century and is native to Africa. It is flightless, but can run at speeds of up to 43 mph (69 kmph) and maintain a speed of around 35 mph (56 kmph) over long distances.

The egg it lays is also large, measuring around six inches (15 cm) in length and weighing as much as three pounds (1.4 kg). Females lay their eggs in a communal nest, although the dominant female is likely to kick out the ones which aren't hers.

The corn snake is a non-venomous snake native to North America. It is a constrictor and is considered useful to humans as its prey includes rats and mice. Its name is often said to derive from being found near grain stores - these attract vermin which then become meals for the snakes.

Corn snakes are among the snake species that lay eggs rather than giving birth to live young. The females lay their eggs in warm, damp hiding places, usually in a batch of between one and two dozen. The eggs are then abandoned with the baby snakes hatching around ten weeks later. The eggs have a soft shell and are oblong in shape.

This is the larva stage in the development of the cinnabar moth. The distinctive black and yellow stripes warn predators that they are not good to eat although it doesn't stop them turning into cannibals if food is in short supply. The adult moth is equally noticeable, with red and black wings - they are equally unpleasant to eat.

The caterpillars are particularly fond of ragwort, making them popular with farmers as the weed is toxic to horses and cattle. Cinnabar moths have been introduced to southern hemisphere countries as a means of controlling ragwort.

Although toad spawn has some resemblance to that of frogs, you will see from the photo that the eggs are laid in long strings rather than in clumps and in double rows. After twelve days or so, these eggs hatch into tadpoles which are bulkier than those of frogs and have shorter tails. They metamorphose into adults after three months.

The common toad is found across Europe, including the UK, but is absent from Ireland and parts of Scandinavia. Unlike frogs, they do not spend much time in water and are more likely to be found hiding in vegetation, coming out at night to feed.

Cabbage white butterflies are named for their habit of laying their eggs on the underside of cabbages or other members of the brassica family. I remember being excited to find eggs in the vegetable patch when I was a child, but my parents were probably less enthusiastic since the leaves provide the source of food for the larvae, or caterpillars.

Caterpillars of the large white butterfly have green and yellow markings while those of the small white species have plain green larvae. Both species are native to Europe, Asia and North Africa, with the small white having been introduced into North America.