The Five Eyes (FVEY) is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.[1] These countries are parties to the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence.
Cool; I didn’t know!
I did know, however, that box jellyfish (small, lethal) have 24 eyes, in four groups of six: https://www.nature.com/news/2005/050509/full/050509-7.html
(I first learned this from this neat paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03484 .)
The Scallop has more, and is tastier.
The University of Texas Austin official song is “The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You”, but I don’t know how many eyes Texas has :~)
I thought it was “The ahhhhs of Texas.”
On cicadas, you can see the three ocelli pretty easily. They look really cool.
Here is a nice picture where you can see them!
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/htmmi8h
Five comments on a post about the five eyes of the bee and …
I just had to ruin it with post #6.
My team once lost a pub quiz because my biology major friends didn’t know this fact (they thought bees had 6 eyes). I’ve never let them live it down.
Cool. And spiders have eight legs and (mostly) eight eyes. And this is the eighth post.
Source: Wikipedia