All grown-up insects have compound eyes, though not many have as large ones as the dragon fly.
Each big eye is really a cluster of little eyes, rather like the "compound eyes" of insects.
It has two simple, and two sets of compound eyes.
The head is remarkable for its large globular compound eyes, its short bristle-like feelers, and its very strong mandibles which bite up the bodies of the victims.
We do not know how they hear, nor how they see through their compound eyes, and our ignorance concerning the majority of their senses still further increases the difficulty, which so often arrests us, of interpreting their actions.
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Intrinsic control of rhabdom size and rhodopsin content in the crabcompoundeyeby a circadian biological clock.
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Fine structural changes in dark-light adaptation in relation to unit studies of an insectcompoundeyewith a crustacean-like rhabdom.
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Optics and evolution of thecompoundeye.
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They grow up to 21 mm long, with two large antennae used for swimming and a singlecompoundeye.
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However, in thecompoundeye, the resolution is related to the size of individual ommatidia and the distance between neighbouring ommatidia.
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Psyklop has a singlecompoundeye, like all members of his race.
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They may act in unison to function as a large, dispersed,compoundeye.
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There is a single largecompoundeyewhich takes up much of the animal's head.
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Chitons have a dispersed network of tiny eyes over the surface of their shells which may act together as acompoundeye.
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Eachcompoundeyeis made up of up to ten thousand ommatidia of the apposition type.
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Most copepods have a single mediancompoundeye, usually bright red and in the centre of the transparent head; subterranean species may be eyeless.
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The retinula (literally, small retina) cells of the ommatidium of thecompoundeyecontain areas from which membranous organelles of conceivable size (rhabdomeres) extend.
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The resulting eye is a mixture of a simple eye within acompoundeye.
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The natural fracture lines (sutures) of the head run along the top edges of thecompoundeye.
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Apposition eyes are the most common form of eye, and are presumably the ancestral form ofcompoundeye.
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