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Show Eyes of a Moth Here's some good news and It's a pleasure to tell it. We've been all wrong, using the moth as a simile for a brainless fool; he's got a perfectly good alibi and we might have known it long ago, except that burnt moths have so little to say. The trouble is with their eyes. The I.epidoptera, which includes all the moths and butterflies, instead of having simple or single-shot eyes like ours, have compound or multiple eyes, some of them with as many as 15,000 or 10,000 separate subdivisions or facets. We knew this all along but kept on blaming the moth for the way he acted around a lighted candle. Maybe we bad better not inquire too closely who was foolish. Kansas City Star. |