The image falls on the retina, a sheet of light-sensing cells at the back of the eye. The insect eye, on the other hand, is a compound eye, consisting of thousands of tiny hexagonal tubes called ommatidia.
Each has its own lens at the front and its own cluster of light sensing cells at the back. The tubes form an interlocking carpet that wraps around the insect's head. The image formed is a mosaic, and each tube contributes one piece. Insect eyes are different from ours because, about million years ago, the ancestors of insects and crustaceans evolved vision separately from the ancestors of humans and other animals with backbones.
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English Cymraeg. Search this site. Visit All about visiting us. All adult insects who have compound eyes also have ocelli, usually located on their back or face. Nymphs or naiads of some species, such as the dragonfly or mayfly, also have ocelli.
Unlike their larger, more prominent compound eyes, insects' ocelli appear as small swellings. Insects can have two to three simple eyes which are not used for discriminating among visual images, but instead are useful for detecting changes in light.
The stemmata are found specifically in the larvae forms of insects that go through a complete metamorphosis egg, larva, pupa and adult stages , such as beetles, wasps, butterflies, flies and fleas.
During the larval stage, these insects do not yet have their compound eyes and instead rely on the stemmata, which are essentially single ommatidia. The stemmata, sometimes referred to as lateral ocelli because these visual organs are located on the sides of the larva's head, can also recognize light changes, color, distance and form.
In addition to their compound and ocelli eyes, butterflies and moths have an additional pair of organs capable of detecting light, particularly ultraviolet light. In fly species with gigantic eyes, an acute zone makes him more far-sighted, equipping him to recognize a female of the species before she can even see him! A word about pigment cells. The types of pigments present in the eye determine what colors an insect sees; insects that have two or more different types of pigment cells can see in color, and many can see the same colors that humans can though reds and oranges are not their strong suit.
Some insects, in fact, can distinguish colors that humans cannot. Crepuscular insects active at dawn and dusk may have larger facets and may collect light over a longer period before transmitting, like selecting a slower shutter speed and wider aperture on a camera in dim light. What does life look like through a compound eye?
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