A Mosquito’s Eyes
This is an image of a mosquito magnified 450X. Believe it or not, a mosquito only has 2 eyes! However, they have what are called compound eyes. This means that there are hundreds of lenses in each eye, which gives the appearance shown here.
Compound eyes are better than simple eyes (eyes that have a single lens like in humans) at detecting motion, but they are not very good at focusing and differentiating textures and shapes.
