These sections come from an area on the top of the dragonfly’s eye called the functional fovea, where the ommatidia are larger and almost parallel to each other; in the rest of the compound eye, the ...

Compound eyes evolved rapidly during the ... We’re lucky to see 50.” A dragonfly’s eye gives it almost complete wraparound vision; our eyes do not. And the elephant hawk moth, which Warrant ...

the individual hexagonal units that make up a compound eye. In Drosophila mauritiana, otd is expressed earlier in eye ...

If you’ve ever watched a dragonfly zig and zag over a pond in search of dinner, you know how fast these gauzy-winged insects can move. In less than half the time it takes a human eye to blink, a ...