The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...

Drawing inspiration from insects’ compound eyes, researchers have created a lens-free compound eye with motion-tracking capabilities and an incredibly wide field of vision. The Hong Kong ...

The Multiple Eyes of Insects, December 1926 Insects Have Many Eye-lenses. Do They See a Separate Image with Each Lens, or a Single Image as Does the Human Being?

All have compound eyes, which means insects see very differently from the way people see. Instead of one lens per eye, they have many: a fly has 5,000 lenses; a dragonfly has 30,000. These types ...