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Everything you wanted to know about the mosquito - facts
and info for kids, children and their teachers and for
everyone interested in the facts about mosquitoes.
Mosquito eyes
The
mosquitoes eyes are compound eyes with the
appearance of being like mesh. This appearance
comes from the fact that compound eyes are made
up of many hundreds if not, thousands of lenses
called ommatidia. Every individual ommatidium
that make up the thousands has its own cornea,
lens and photoreceptor cells that distinguish
colour and brightness. The individual ommatidia
channels light through a lens, down a cone and
then down a channel called rhabdom. The rhabdom
consists of light sensing cells. The rhabdom are
intern connected to optical nerve cells that
produce the image. The thousands of ommatidia
are separated from one another by pigment at
varying degrees.
With all the ommatidia piled next to one
another, a bulge is created resulting in a very
wide view. Each and every ommatidia is set at a
slightly different angle creating a mosaic like
view that has poor quality but is very good for
picking out any movement.
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Different Types of Mosquitoes
There are many
different types of mosquitoes which can be found in
every region of the world. The following articles
details facts and information about many different
types of mosquitoes. There re also facts and
information about the size of the different types of
mosquitoes, the habitat in which they live and an
indication of how long they live. Everything you
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