Unfurling Fern Frond with Egg

An unfurling fern frond curls inward, its young pinnae and leaflet edges still tightly rolled toward the stem. Pale yellow-green new growth and darker green stems sit against a soft out-of-focus green background, lit by diffuse natural light and photographed with a very shallow depth of field. A single small yellow insect egg clings to the tip of one leaflet and fine white hairs and droplets are visible on the central rachis.