in insects and some crustaceans: composed of many light-sensitive elements each forming a portion of an image
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Ants can swarm over a field and find the choicest food in it as if the swarm were a large compound eye. 蚂蚁能成群结队地穿过田野，并在田野上找到上佳食物，仿佛它们就是一只巨大的复眼。
Compound eyes in living arthropods such as insects are very sensitive to motion , and it is likely that they were similarly important in predator detection in trilobites. 复眼在现生的节肢动物如昆虫中非常常见，这些复眼对运动的物体非常敏感，对于一些食肉的三叶虫来说这种相似的构造非常重要。
