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This intricate structure of blue rods and red dots is a cross section through the eye of a damselfly. Insects’ compound eyes are structured very differently than the eyes of humans and other mammals, ...

Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

Although adult lacewings have complex compound eyes, it was mostly known that these juvenile insects used simple eyes known ...

Drawing inspiration from insects’ compound eyes, researchers have created a lens-free compound eye with motion-tracking capabilities and an incredibly wide field of vision. The Hong Kong ...

Compound eyes are made up of many repeating units, known as ommatidia, each unit with its own lens and light receptor cells. Using information from each lens and light receptor, the eyes produce a ...

Most insects also have wings, although a few, like fleas, don't. All have compound eyes, which means insects see very differently from the way people see. Instead of one lens per eye, they have many: ...

Cicadas are members of the superfamily Cicadoidea and are physically distinguished by their stout bodies, broad heads, clear-membraned wings, and large compound eyes. There are more than 3,000 ...