Science Art: Surface of a Western honeybee’s eye, by Janice Carr and Connie Flowers.

SurfaceOfAWesternHoneybeesEye
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Gaze into the eye of the bee, and the colony gazes into you. This is not honeycomb, but the individual components (ommatidia) of a bee’s compound eye.

Full credit here is by Janice Carr (photo credit) and Connie Flowers, Pamela Munn (content provider), found on Asknature.org.