Like the creature that lays them, the Doxy eggs aren't really bad as such, just... Well. If the grown Doxy is a pest, then its egg is pestilential. In its smell. It would make a compost heap pinch its nose shut. A troll's eyes would water.
Funny how these things don't get noticed until one is the size of a normal-sized goblet. Gives you a new perspective on everything. Perhaps the smell is some sort of defence mechanism or something?
In any case, just as before, there is another hint hidden underneath the box of eggs. Here's what it says:
Quote:
Out of the ground,
I grow round and upright,
Sometimes picked,
By the full moon's light.