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Flash Artefact or Real?
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:49 pm
by Chris Pickford
Looking at close up images of a Small Elephant Hawk that came visiting last night, I notice that the eye appears to have a central dark area, rather like our eyes and not like the usual insect compound eyes. Does anyone know if this is real (why?) or an artefact caused by the flash??
![Image](http://upload9.postimage.org/246454/elehawk102.jpg)
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:00 pm
by Dave McCormick
Seems real. Here is the eye of an Elephent hawk moth to show you:
This was taken with a flash and (you can't see it so well in this) I noticed that these hawk moths have the central spot on their eye too. Maybe they have better eyesight than a lot of other leps?