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Noun
  1. (biology) Any of various primitive light-sensitive organs or regions in many diverse organisms.
  2. (botany) Any of a group of fungal infections of grasses that are characterized by oval spots.
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However, this eyespot probably cannot form an acute image but merely acts as a light sensor.
Where eyespot is over threshold the preferred fungicide would be cyprodinil although Punch and Landmark both have some activity against eyespot and can give useful control.
For a second or two, the whale is so close that I can see its white eyespot, and then it dives.
The Io moth, named for a character in Greek mythology, has a very obvious black eyespot on each hindwing.
The eyespot fungus survives in the residue of infected plants for 3 or more years and is most severe under cool, wet conditions.
Some pests for which such prognoses are made regularly are birdcherry aphids, frit flies and eyespot in cereals and sclerotinia disease in spring oilseeds.

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