Unique fly's eye

harferri (78)in #animal • 9 years ago

The fly has a unique eye construction. These animals have compound eyes that occupies most of his head and three eyes between the two compound eyes. Because of this majemuknya eyes, flies also have excellent sensory awareness and deft aerial maneuverability. This is why the fly is very difficult to hit. A fly's eye consists of a pair of large compound eyes. Each compound eye consists of a simple eye 3000 to 6000 are arranged like a puzzle.

With the eyes of this compound, the flies can not focus on a particular object in the surrounding neighborhood, but the flies actually have a view almost heading in all directions. It is similar to supervisors at casinos that have tens or even hundreds of cameras in the room. Each camera displays video from all over the casino.

in addition, flies also has three eyes additional simple called ocelli. ocelli is located between the two compound eyes. function works like a Compass, with the eyes of the flies can find out towards flight. ocelli work maximum in the area illuminated sunlight.
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