A BEE’S 1200 EYES
In the case of many insects Ihe orbs of the eyes are fixed. Nature has made up for their immobility by their number, placing over the eye a multiple lens, which conducts light to the eye from every direction, so that the insect can see 'with its fixed eye as easily as it would have done with a movable one. A spider has eight eyes —two in front of the head, two on either side, and two on the top. No fewer than 1200 eyes have been counted in the head of a drone bee.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 24 February 1931, Page 6
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99A BEE’S 1200 EYES Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 24 February 1931, Page 6
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