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Originally Posted by Marios
Interesting eyes..
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Typical Dragonfly eyes. They have primary (compound) eyes (the larger ones that you can see), and a smaller set of 3 eyes on top of their heads. These are referred to as "ocelli". The smaller set of ocelli are generally used for navigation and telling the Dragonfly that it's flying the right side up AFAIK, but it seems that might not be all that they do - this is an interesting read:
http://sciencewise.anu.edu.au/articles/dragonfly
Dave