Page 105 - Miracle in the Eye

Thanks to the
flawless de-
sign of its
eyes, the
housefly can
look 360 de-
cornea grees around.
At left, a de-
cornea
tailed dia-
gram of an
photoreceptor
cells ommatidium,
of which the
fly's eye con-
tains some
ommatidia 4,000.

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