Small is beautiful!
In a new pre-print in @elife.bsky.social, a team led by Alexey Polilov do the first-ever 3d electron-microscopic analysis of a miniaturized eye: the 29-lens compound eye of a 0.2-mm-long parasitic wasp!
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
(whole wasp image by Andrew Polaszek.)