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Head of horse fly with huge compound eye in extreme close up.

compound eye:

A type of many-surfaced eye found in insects, such as bees. Some insects, such as dragonflies, have compound eyes composed of several thousand individual eyes. The result is a combined mosaic image that allows a dragonfly to see a wide area around it.

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