Do some spiders have 6 eyes?

Most spiders have eight eyes, but some species have six, four, two, or even no eyes. Even within a single species, the number of eyes may vary, but it's always an even number.
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Do any spiders have 10 eyes?

Spiders have very tiny waists compared to other arachnids. Spiders can have anywhere from zero to eight eyes, but most species have eight.
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Is there a spider with 8 eyes?

Toggle Table of Contents Nav. Spiders usually have eight eyes but few have good eyesight. Spiders usually have eight eyes (some have six or fewer), but few have good eyesight. They rely instead on touch, vibration and taste stimuli to navigate and find their prey.
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Do any animals have 6 eyes?

Six-eyed spiders are spiders that, unlike most spider species miss the principal pair of eyes, leaving them with only six eyes instead of the usual eight.
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What kind of spider has 6 eyes?

Six Eyes: Several spider families have species with six eyes. These include the recluse spiders (Sicariidae), the spitting spiders (Scytodidae), and some of the cellar spiders (Pholcidae).
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Do spiders have 100 eyes?

The number of eyes on spiders varies from zero to eight. While most spider species have 8 eyes, some spiders like Sinopoda Scurion have no eyes at all!
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What animal has a thousand eyes?

While this mollusk may not look like much, it has a few defenses and surprises up its sleeve. This chiton, also known as a sea cradle, has thousands of tiny eyes on its shell — all equipped with a light sensitive cell and a lens.
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Do wolf spiders have 4 eyes?

Their eight eyes take on different tasks to assist in navigation. Picture of a wolf spider. Please note the four eyes in the center of the photo, with two large eyes above, and the two eyes above that, on the back of the head.
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Does spider have 20000 eyes?

Spiders usually have eight or fewer eyes (some have six or less). Most web building spiders can't see well, instead they can detect changes in light and dark, which relates to their photoperiod (day/night) cues for web building.
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Can spiders fart?

Since the stercoral sac contains bacteria, which helps break down the spider's food, it seems likely that gas is produced during this process, and therefore there is certainly the possibility that spiders do fart.
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Does a wolf spider have 8 eyes?

All wolf spiders have eight dark eyes arranged around their heads, or cephalothorax. Two large eyes gleam from the top of the head; two more large eyes peer out the front; and four smaller eyes form a row just above the spider's mouth.
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How many eyes does a black widow spider have?

The widow spiders have eight eyes arranged in two rows of four and their vision is quite poor.
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Do spiders watch you?

Jumping spiders are probably the only spiders that actually 'watch' you. This is due to their excellent vision. Other spiders like common house spiders, wolf spiders, and even tarantulas do not have good eyesight and probably cannot even see you if you are more than a few feet away.
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Why do wolf spiders chase you?

In general, and despite their menacing appearance, wolf spiders do not pose much of a threat to human beings. While they may be fast and aggressive when hunting their insect prey, they don't usually bite people unless provoked. If you do come across a wolf spider, its first impulse will probably be to retreat.
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What animal has 32 brains?

Leech has 32 brains. A leech's internal structure is segregated into 32 separate segments, and each of these segments has its own brain. Leech is an annelid.
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What animal has 10 hearts?

Since octopus blood is very copper-rich, it's exceptionally viscous. As a result, it requires a significant amount of pressure to pump blood through its body. To compensate, the octopus evolved three separate hearts to take stress off of its systematic heart and ensure it gets enough oxygen into its gills.
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Do any animals have 1 eye?

The answer is yes. And they are everything but big monsters. There are 44 species of the genus Cyclops, also known as water fleas, all with a single eye that is either red or black. Cyclops are between 0.5-3 mm long, have 5 pairs of limbs on the head and another 7 pairs of limbs on the mid-body.
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Do ants have eyes?

Most ants have two large compound eyes. They have a set of simple eyes, which consist of many omatidia (eye facets) ocelli, which detect light and shadow. Ants also have two antennae they use to recognize their nest mates and detect enemies.
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How many eyes does a spider have 6 or 8?

Most spiders have eight eyes. Some species have six or fewer eyes, but they always come in an even number. Some species of spiders, such as those that live in caves or under the soil, have no eyes at all.
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How many eyes does a mosquito have?

Eye: Mosquitoes have two large compound eyes that detect movement.
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How many eyes does a scorpion have?

Scorpions are easily distinguished by their long sting-bearing tail and a pair of pincers on long arms, known as pedipalps, at the front of the body. Despite having six to twelve eyes - an obvious pair at the centre of the carapace and two to five smaller eyes on each side - scorpions do not have good eyesight.
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How many eyes does a cockroach have?

- Cockroaches (Periplaneta) have two types of eyes, the simple and compound eyes. They have three simple eyes known as ocelli on their forehead and two large, sessile, black, kidney-shaped structures located on the dorsolateral sides of the head capsule. - The group of ommatidia together constitutes compound eyes.
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Can spiders hear?

Spiders don't have ears—generally a prerequisite for hearing. So, despite the vibration-sensing hairs and receptors on most arachnids' legs, scientists long thought spiders couldn't hear sound as it traveled through the air, but instead felt vibrations through surfaces.
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Are daddy long legs poisonous?

Daddy long legs, also known as cellar spiders, contain venom and possess fangs, but there has been no evidence of their fangs being too short to cut through human skin or of their venoms being deadly and poisonous to humans. In reality, daddy long legs are not poisonous or dangerous to humans and are not known to bite.
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