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Thank you, Noe and Phil!
right, it is a cricket!
to me it looks like a big beetle larva.
Hi, I guess, it does, because every arthropod has complex eyes. Crabs belong to them as well as praying mantis. Maybe it's because their eyes are so big that we see this effect mainly in their eyes...
Hi, I guess, it does, because every arthropod has complex eyes. Crabs belong to them as well as praying mantis. Maybe it's because their eyes are so big that we see this effect mainly in their eyes...
That's right. Even biology students aren't interested anymore, looking through high tech microscopes , changeing DNA-sequences, forgetting about biology as the science of living things. Not just of molecules.
It's a little fish, living on the ground of creeks, rivers and clear, cold lakes...
I guess it's more an absorbtion of the little ommatidia which are the little fragments of compound eyes. So if you look from a special angle, the light ist not reflected but absorbed by a few of them.
I haven't read an explanation for that phenomenon yet, but I guess it's because of the tube-like shape of the ommatidia. It depends on from where you look into the tube. If you do it straight, you'll see nothing, but from an angel you'll see the inner sides of it. Since there is a lense in every single ommatidium, this comparison might be quite simplified, but maybe it hits the point... I watched my little mantis for long times, moving my head from right to left and back, making people watching me think I'm crazy...
Hey Tom, you know that the "following eyes" are just refelctions, or bett: absorbions, in the mantis' unmoving complex eyes? Just wanna make sure ;-)
Very nice shot.
