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Ah, well now, there's a story...Cyclops wrote:Is it me or does this spider appear to have pupils just like our eyes?
I cross-checked with Jody Melanson, who confirmed that the spider was in fact several months dead.The spider is dead. You don't see the black and brown like this when you look into the eyes of the live spider, but I have seen the rings like this in dead spiders that are partly or completely dried. This doesn't look completely dried, as far as I can see.
It's a bit hard to guess how the soft parts inside the eye would change after death, but one guess is that the tubular walls of the eye contract inward toward the centre of each eye, thus becoming this brown rim.
You can see black and brown in the eyes of a live salticid but it has to do with looking into the walls versus the retina, and it changes as the eye moves; it's not simply a black dot and brown rim.