This photo shows the animals three ocelli quite well. Ocelli (or ocellus singular) are"simple eyes" with a single lens. Humans also have "simple eyes" and the term is used to distinguish them from the insects compound eye which has multiple lenses.
Monday 7 September 2015
A couple of insects
A couple of insects from Meols the other day. The first is clearly a 22-spot ladybird, the other looks like Epeolus cruciger to me, which according to NBN Gateway is pretty scarce but does occur on the Wirral coast. Epeolus cruciger is a cleptoparasite, which means it steals food from another species, in this case Colletes succinctus.
This photo shows the animals three ocelli quite well. Ocelli (or ocellus singular) are"simple eyes" with a single lens. Humans also have "simple eyes" and the term is used to distinguish them from the insects compound eye which has multiple lenses.
This photo shows the animals three ocelli quite well. Ocelli (or ocellus singular) are"simple eyes" with a single lens. Humans also have "simple eyes" and the term is used to distinguish them from the insects compound eye which has multiple lenses.
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