However, the hind wings aren’t its only striking features. S. charybdis appears to have evolved a unique, three-flapped ...

The eye is an organ of extreme perfection ... “Naut” is because I feel like an astronaut with the scanner, flying along and making discoveries. The scanner creates black-and-white images ...

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 of ...

The insects have evolved a compound eye ... That came as a total surprise, because we thought that the fruit fly eye was in no way a homologous, a similar structure as in humans.

The Guinness World Record for highest flying insect is held by the tortoiseshell ... over the Zemu Glacier in the eastern Himalayas at an eye-watering altitude of 5,791 meters (19,000 feet).

Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do ... Since fruit flies are such small insects, they are the target of a wide range of predators, so the ability to detect the motion of a possible ...

All told, insect pollinators contribute ... dragonfly Austrophlebia costalis has been clocked flying at a speed of 36 mph. Bees possess five eyes. The three ocelli are simple eyes that discern ...

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 ...