Friday, July 04, 2008

Dragon Fly Eyes


dragon fly eyes
Originally uploaded by pdecell
I try to see something new every day. Look at this dragon fly's eyes closely. The eye is divided into at least two regions. The upper region seems to have slightly larger sections(ommatidia), perhaps for detecting movement. The lower region's ommatidia are smaller, perhaps for seeing detail.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Do dragonflies have a hard protective coating on their eyes? I saw a large FL dragonfly repeatedly ram into my clear glass balcony rail "eye-first" until it figured out how to fly above it. It appeared to be fine afterwards.