Now light enough to fly, it takes off leaving behind a large droplet of water. Bug Eyes Insect's compound eyes cannot see fine details clearly, so they do not rely on eyesight the way people do. Honey bee eyesight, for example, is well understood. To a person, looking through the eyes of a honey bee is like looking through a wall of glass bricks. The spherical surface of their compound eye makes depth perception impossible, so they crash into each other entering and leaving the hive.
Mosquitoes have eyes similar to bees.
As they get closer the visual image loses definition. When they land on you they can see the world above them, but their feet on your skin are a blur. Biting flies put you through a blender and drink you through a straw This is the head of a biting midge or Culicoides furens. At the end of its snout or proboscis are lips that conceal serrated teeth. Like other flies it lives on a liquid diet, which it drinks through its proboscis.