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An insects eye is made up with many many small lenses, all joined side by side. Each lens sees only a small part of the scene but taken together they give a complete view of what is around the fly. As the eyes is made up of lots of small bits it is a 'compound' rater than a single structure - hence compound eye.
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∙ 10y agoAn eye which is having more than two lenses is called a compound eye.
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What is the compound noun for eye?
an eye made of a large number of parts, each with a separate lens, as found in insects
What is the name of the many lens of insect eyes?
The entire thing is called a compound eye, with many facets, or ommatidia (simple individual eyes). Insects also have three non-compound eyes between their large compound eyes, on the top of their heads. These are called ocelli.
How are camouflage and compound eye related?
If you're talking about insects, this is my guess... Compound eyes are used to find prey to capture them. Camouflage is used to hide from predators.
Why is it that bright colored flowers have a better chance of being pollinated?
An insects' compound eye distinguishes between shades of colour.
How much eyes do incectshave?
How many eye's does an average insect have?* it would depend on the type of eye the insect has. A Compound eye is one single eye made of multitudes of smaller ones. While a simple Eye is just your standard eye Much like we have.(But much weaker) A fly for instance has 2 Compound eyes. While other insects have multiple Simple eyes.
Is the eye of the ant compound or simple?
It is a compound eye.
Do butterflies have compound eyes?
No vertebrates have compound eyes. Compound eyes are only seen in invertebrates, mostly insects.
Eye made of many identical light-sensitive cells?
Compound eye
What name is given to creatures other thn ants that have many eyes?
Many creatures that are hardly related to each other have more than two eyes. Examples include many kinds of leeches, some kinds of clams, most kinds kinds of arthropods such as spiders, and certainly most kinds of insects. In particular, insects, trilobites, horseshoe crabs, and many crustaceans such as crabs and mantis shrimps, have (or, when they still were alive, had) clustered eyes. There is no one name for all those creatures, but the clustered eyes are called compound eyes, and the little eyes that are clustered into compound eyes are called ommatidia. A single eye in a compound eye is called an ommatidium.
What does the compound eye do on the crayfish?
The compound eye senses light.
What compound's do birds insects and reptiles living in dry habitats excrete?
sodium chloride
Which insect has the most eyes?
Probably dragonflies, with as many as 30000 facets in each of their compound eyes.
