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Fun Fact #6: Compound Eyed Tarantulas

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Technically, tarantulas and all spiders don't have compound eyes because compound eyes are only found in insects today and in certain sea creatures back in the Cambrian era. Nowadays, compound eyes are known for their insects like flies or butterflies. Arachnids have close together eyes, some more than others. Their eyes seem almost invisible because of how close together they are. Looking at them in the distance makes it seem like they're sort of eye-less. Most of the time, each spider has eyes with a different lens by having a different focus in different angles of sight. Like how the above eyes would be able to see above them and the sides see upwards to the side or downwards. Crab spider eyes Tick eyes Spider eyes