Since insects have compound eyes (with straight tubes or light guides radiating out from the centre of the eye like the spines of a hedgehog), this might amount in practice to something as simple as keeping the light in one particular tube or ommatidium. From Wordnik.com. [The God Delusion]
In the honeybee each ommatidium contains six green photoreceptors, which give rise to the short visual fibres. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Each of the crab's ommatidium is like one of your camera's pixels - but instead of millions there is just 8,000. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
In Bombus impatiens a similar pattern is likely, since UV opsin is found in zero, one or two receptors per ommatidium, and these cells always correspond to the R1 or R5 photoreceptors. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
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