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Micro Bakery
![Micro Bakery](/image/jp/science-edu/micro/content/img-melonpan.jpg)
A sweet bread roll that's crispy on the outside and soft on the inside — you can almost smell the butter...But of course, it's not actually melonpan.
What do you think it might be? Let's find out!
![20μm](/image/jp/science-edu/micro/content/img-melonpan-x4k-mm.png)
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Let's decrease the magnification a little.
Those oval objects are pulled pretty tightly together.
![30μm](/image/jp/science-edu/micro/content/img-melonpan-x2.5k-mm.png)
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If you lower the magnification even more, you can see bushy hair all around.
![100μm](/image/jp/science-edu/micro/content/img-melonpan-x1k-mm.png)
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If you lower the magnification further, the image starts to resemble the face of an insect.
There's something that looks like melonpan on the other side as well.
![200μm](/image/jp/science-edu/micro/content/img-melonpan-x400-mm.png)
Answer: Lace bug compound eyes
What looked like a delicious melonpan was actually a "compound eye." Compound eyes are composed of a number of individual eyes, and are mostly found in insects (especially those that can fly).
On a side note, in addition to compound eyes grasshoppers and bees also have ocelli, which are a different kind of eye.