[tom_wilde]

~7000 elements per compound eye according to this page:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/brookfieldfarmhoney.wordpress...

[lawpoop]

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

[lawpoop]

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