Each hexagonal rod, called an ommatidium, contains major structures that have analogues/counterparts in our own eyes ... dragonfly’s eye called the functional fovea, where the ommatidia are larger and ...

For some, their eyes are covered with a transparent scale, eliminating the need for blinking. Dragonflies have compound eyes with up to 30,000 tiny lenses, giving them nearly 360-degree vision.

Take this dragonfly, for example. Its eyes are actually made up of thousands of tiny different lenses. We call this kind of eye a compound eye, and because all the little lenses point in different ...