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Originally Posted by Liz
Haha, amazing funny fellas for sure, well done Steve. 
Are the eyes that entire large area (like a fly) then what are the little black dots, that look like little eyes?? |
Those little black dots on the eyes are called the false fovea. It's basically where the light that falls on the surface of the ommatidia (the individual lenses) appears to converge (within the cells) and cancel out. It actually moves around as the insect swivels it's head about....it's more optical illusion than anything else. Insects don't have a true fovea, like vertebrates.
Here's something that will explain how an insect's eyes work....
compound eyes