Image of the month
feb 2010 Magnification: 200x Compound eyes consist of thousands of individual photoreceptor units. Due to the laws of optics, they require eyes the size of their heads, to see with a comparable resolution as humans.
This compound eye of a cockoo's wasp is currently exhibited in Basel (14th Jan - 11th Feb 2010).
feb 2010 Magnification: 200x Compound eyes consist of thousands of individual photoreceptor units. Due to the laws of optics, they require eyes the size of their heads, to see with a comparable resolution as humans.
This compound eye of a cockoo's wasp is currently exhibited in Basel (14th Jan - 11th Feb 2010).
