How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains

Re:How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains by lawpoop on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:51PM (#13477734)

I guess that's true for mammalian eyes, but what about insect eyes? If the bumble brain only hold 200k neurons, how many do their eyes have on board?

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Re:How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains by tom_wilde on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:52AM (#13480352)

~7000 elements per compound eye according to this page:

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Re:How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains by lawpoop on Thursday January 26, 2017 @12:59AM (#13489086)

That's individual lenses, right? But it says that each lens has its own photoreceptor(s). So that is a multiple of 7000.

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Re:How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains by lawpoop on Thursday January 26, 2017 @11:55AM (#13492982)

So if that's three photo receptors per facet, already each eye is rivaling the neuron count of the brain.

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