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lawpoop on Jan 26, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny b...

That's individual lenses, right? But it says that each lens has its own photoreceptor(s). So that is a multiple of 7000.

lawpoop on Jan 26, 2017 [–]

So if that's three photo receptors per facet, already each eye is rivaling the neuron count of the brain.

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