It’s probably obvious from this photo that insect eyes are not like human eyes. Insects generally have two kinds of eyes: simple and compound. In this photo, we are focusing on the compound eyes. Compound eyes are made up of numerous ommatidia, which are tiny, independent photoreception units. Each ommatidia is sort of like an eyeball in that it consists of a cornea, lens, and photoreceptor cells. The image that an insect perceives is a combination of input from all of the ommatidia. An insect’s brain takes all of the individual images to create one large picture. The resulting image that they see ends up being a mosaic, with each ommatidia contributing one tile to the overall picture.
The insect in this photo is a long-horned beetle (Family Cerambycidae). The members of this family are named for their fantastically long antennae, but they also have really cool eyes. Check out the way that the beetle’s compound eyes wrap partly around the base of the antennae! Weird, but definitely cool! {Batocera rufomaculata spotted in Oman by JungleDragon user, Abu Elias} #JungleDragon #insecteyes #longhornbeetle #Batocerarufomaculata
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It’s probably obvious from this photo that insect eyes are not like human eyes. Insects generally have two kinds of eyes: simple and compound. In this photo, we are focusing on the compound eyes. Compound eyes are made up of numerous ommatidia, which are tiny, independent photoreception units. Each ommatidia is sort of like an eyeball in that it consists of a cornea, lens, and photoreceptor cells. The image that an insect perceives is a combination of input from all of the ommatidia. An insect’s brain takes all of the individual images to create one large picture. The resulting image that they see ends up being a mosaic, with each ommatidia contributing one tile to the overall picture.
The insect in this photo is a long-horned beetle (Family Cerambycidae). The members of this family are named for their fantastically long antennae, but they also have really cool eyes. Check out the way that the beetle’s compound eyes wrap partly around the base of the antennae! Weird, but definitely cool! {Batocera rufomaculata spotted in Oman by JungleDragon user, Abu Elias} #JungleDragon #insecteyes #longhornbeetle #Batocerarufomaculata
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