Borrowing From Insect Eyes. Many insects can fly through dark forests or hunt at dusk because of their special compound eyes. These eyes contain many tiny lenses, called ommatidia, that each ...

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Insects like dragonflies have eyes that, in pairs, provide an almost 360-degree field of vision and help them to deftly evade predators. Their eyes are composed of many ommatidia, ...

The bug’s family name, Gelastocoridae, means “laughing” or “funny bug,” experts said. They believe whoever named the bug was amused by them. Ferreira died March 7 at his home in Connecticut.

Instead of having a single lens, as human eyes do, to focus an image on the retina, insect eyes have many fine tubes, each tipped with a small lens.

Bulging eyes. Elongated mouth. Sticky feet that oozed resin. A newly discovered bug found trapped in 100-million-year-old Burmese amber is so unusual that it needed its own family.

When a man in his mid-50s living in New Delhi, India first noticed some mild irritation in his right eye, he figured it would pass. But after it persisted for ten days, he thought back to an unlucky ...