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Scorpion eyes are NOT where I thought

Time to move away from the Spoods and mantids, and give Diablo a little love. Since my last post about Diablo, I have added approximately 8 extra litres of coco fibre substrate into his enclosure. He loves to dig, he really loves to fill his food bowl with dirt, and who am I to stop him from doing what makes him happy? He's settled down enough now that he's not tapping on the glass all night, too. He's often found out in the daytime, just sitting and chilling. Which is nice. It also means that I've been able to get a pretty good look at him, even if I've not been able to get a decent photograph of him. When I took this photo of him, it was very obvious to see that he had two eyes, on the top of his head, in a central position. But I had heard that arachnids have between six to eight eyes. On my tarantulas, you can clearly see eyes - if not individual ones then you can see distinct clusters of eyes. So where are the others? Well, having done a bit of digging...