How much eyes do butterflies have?

Butterflies have two eyes just like we do. But butterfly eyes are called compound eyes because they have many, many lenses. That means butterflies can see many different things in many directions all at the same time.
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Do all butterflies have 12000 eyes?

How many eyes do butterflies have? Butterflies have two different types of eyes. Both single, and 12000 compound eyes.
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What has 12000 eyes living?

The monarch butterfly has 12000 eyes that help it to practically see in every direction. These butterflies have two types of eyes- Simple and Compound. The simple eyes are single-chambered and used to detect the brightness of light.
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Do butterflys have eyes?

Butterflies have compound eyes. Rather than our one big eye, they have up to 17,000 mini eyes each of which has its own lens, a single rod, and up to three cones.
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How many lenses do butterfly eyes have?

Many butterflies have ultraviolet markings on their wings which also help with mate recognition. Butterflies have big round eyes that are called hemispherical compound eyes. Each eye has up to 17000 tiny lenses that work in unison and create a mosaic view of their environment.
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Do butterflies have 360 vision?

Some species of butterflies, like the empress Leilia (Asterocampa leilia), have a visual field of about 344 degrees on the horizontal plane--only 16 degrees short of seeing all the way around its body. And vertically it is almost a full 360 degrees. The average human has a visual field of only 190 degrees.
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Which animal has most eyes?

The number of ommatidia in insect eyes can vary from tens to tens of thousands though, and the winner would probably be a dragonfly, since they tend to have the most of any arthropod.
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Are butterfly blind?

Butterflies and other insects are considered blind because, according to human standards, they cannot see fine details, referred to as poor resolution. Insect resolution is 100 times worse than that of humans.
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Do ants have eyes?

Most ants have two large compound eyes. They have a set of simple eyes, which consist of many omatidia (eye facets) ocelli, which detect light and shadow. Ants also have two antennae they use to recognize their nest mates and detect enemies.
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Do butterflies poop?

Adult butterflies do not urinate or defecate (or "go to the bathroom"). The larval life stage - the caterpillar - does all of the eating, and caterpillars almost continually defecate. Interestingly, when there enough caterpillars eating in the same place, their defecation is audible. That is, you can hear the poop!
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What has more than 2 eyes?

Invertebrates often have more than two eyes. Most spiders, for example, have eight eyes that help them spot and hunt prey. A group of marine molluscs called chitons do even better – they have hundreds of eyes dotted all over the armoured plates that cover their bodies.
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Do butterflies drink blood?

Most butterflies drink nectar (or drink blood or sweat or urine or tears), but they don't defecate.
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How many eyes do spiders have?

Most spiders have eight eyes.

Some have no eyes and others have as many as 12 eyes. Most can detect only between light and dark, while others have well-developed vision. Experiments have demonstrated that some spiders can recognize and respond to specific shapes on television monitors.
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How many eyes does a mosquito have?

Eye: Mosquitoes have two large compound eyes that detect movement.
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Can butterflies bite?

Butterflies don't bite because they can't. Caterpillars munch on leaves and eat voraciously with their chewing mouthparts, and some of them do bite if they feel threatened. But once they become butterflies, they only have a long, curled proboscis, which is like a soft drinking straw—their jaws are gone.
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Do butterflies have a brain?

Yes, butterflies and all other insects have both a brain and a heart. The center of a butterfly's nervous system is the subesophageal ganglion and is located in the insect's thorax, not its head. The butterfly has a long chambered heart that runs the length of its body on the upper side.
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Can ants fart?

Yes. In insects, we usually call it the “gut,” but it does more or less the same things in insects that intestines do in humans.
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Can ants see 3d?

For us three dimensional creatures, the explanation is perfectly clear. But, again, because the ants cannot get off the surface of their sphere to see it, they don't understand how it can be spherical in form.
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Why do ants kiss?

It's Communication. Talk about intimate communication. Researchers have found that ants pass along chemical signals with their nest mates by sharing saliva.
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Are butterflies deaf?

Many Nymphalidae butterflies have ears and scientists have confirmed hearing in several species using neuroanatomical and neurophysiological methods. Ears are mostly sensitive to sound frequencies between 500 Hz and 6 kHz, overlapping the hearing range of humans.
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Can butterflies see in color?

It uses color vision when searching for food, and is sensitive to UV, violet, blue, green, and red wavelength peaks, suggesting color constancy. In nature, these butterflies feed on nectar provided by flowers of various colors not only in direct sunlight, but also in shaded places and on cloudy days.
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Are dogs color blind?

Dogs' eyes only have two cones. This means that not only can they not perceive the colors red or green, but they can't perceive shades containing either of those colors, such as pink, purple, and orange. Dogs are also unable to perceive subtle changes in a color's brightness or shade.
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What animal has 32 brains?

Leech has 32 brains. A leech's internal structure is segregated into 32 separate segments, and each of these segments has its own brain. Leech is an annelid.
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What animal has 8 hearts?

Such an enormous pressure would require a very large, strong and slow-beating heart. But, they postulate, instead of a single large heart, the Barosaurus probably had some eight hearts.
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Do any animals have 1 eye?

The answer is yes. And they are everything but big monsters. There are 44 species of the genus Cyclops, also known as water fleas, all with a single eye that is either red or black. Cyclops are between 0.5-3 mm long, have 5 pairs of limbs on the head and another 7 pairs of limbs on the mid-body.
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