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Hey Five-Eyes! - _TNY_5206

A male common bluet (Enallagma cyathigerum) busy eating some sort of smaller insect. It had devoured too much of its prey for me to be able to identify what it used to be.

 

If you look in between those large blue eyes, you can see three small red pearls in a triangular formation. These are ocelli (singular: ocellus) - simple eyes that help insects gather additional information on top of what the main pair provides. Note that these aren't "simple" as in limited - just "simple" as in "not compound eyes".

 

For another shot of the same damsel, taken just before this one, please have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51474863422/

 

 

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Uploaded on December 22, 2021
Taken on August 21, 2021