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Can you tell what type of insect each of these eyes belong to? You’ll find the answer below.

Click and drag below to highlight the text and reveal the answer. A photo of all the insects is further below.

A) Dragonfly (Rhionaeschna multicolor)
B) Fly (Diptera)
C) Mayfly (Ephemeroptera)
D) Syrphid Fly (Eristalinus taeniops)
E) Butterfly (Pieris rapae)
F) Green Lacewing (Chrysopidae)

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Kelly Brenner

Kelly Brenner is a naturalist, writer and artist based in Seattle. She is the author of THE NATURALIST AT HOME: Projects for Discovering the Hidden World Around Us and NATURE OBSCURA: A City’s Hidden Natural World from Mountaineers Books, a finalist for the Washington State Book Awards and Pacific Northwest Book Awards. She writes articles about natural history and has bylines in Crosscut, Popular Science, National Wildlife Magazine and others. On the side she writes fiction.

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