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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-08-2006, 09:59 AM
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Well, I am an entomologist, more or less. I'm doing a PhD in stream ecology, studying predatory stoneflies and caddisflies.
Those little eyes are the ocelli I made reference to in the other post. Sometimes they're called "simple eyes". Insects really go overboard in the eye department. Their main eyes are compound, and then many of them have various numbers of ocelli on top of their heads. If you google "ocelli" you'll find all about what they're for, far better explained than I could do!
Julie
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-08-2006, 09:35 AM
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Putting anything in the subject line about insects is bound to get my attention...
The first and last are my faves - the first is a nice composition, I like the way the position of the bee parallels the oblong flower head, and the detail on the bee is fantastic. On the last, the ocelli are clearly visible, which is rather cool - I'd never noticed that pentatomids had ocelli like that. And the dusting of pollen, wonderful detail. It's snowing here, no insect macros for me.:(
Julie
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