During the age of dinosaurs, small predators with unexpectedly advanced eyes hunted in the darkness roughly 100 million years ...

Bees. Bees, essential pollinators in many ecosystems, are insects renowned for their complex visual systems. Their eyes are divided into two types: compound eyes and simple eyes, also known as ocelli.

Each arm has a tiny eye at the tip, meaning a five-armed starfish has five eyes, while some species with more arms have even more. These molluscs have up to 200 tiny, blue eyes lining the edges of ...

A “smiling” damselfly and shimmering beetle captivated judges in the Royal Entomological Society’s 2024 Photography ...

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 ...

“Insects and crustaceans have become so successful despite their compound eyes, not because of them,” says Nilsson. “They would have done so much better with camera-type eyes. But evolution ...

Researchers reconstruct the tiny eye of Megaphragma viggianii in 3D, revealing adaptations and possible technological applications.

He is supposed to eat the eyes and give the ... the harmful insects have disappeared, and the jaglavak as well, for they do not remain in the compound, unlike the gula ant (which the Kapsiki ...

In this study, the authors analyse its fossil record and show that global flora changes through time shaped the evolution of hemipteran insects ... one pair of compound eyes and ocellar median ...