330K views · 8.7K reactions | Jumping spider (Maratus), video taken by Flynn Prall | Macro Micro World | Facebook

No jumping spider videos today, in stead here’s an angry looking moth with red glowing eyes 😂 ✨oleander hawk moth✨ Moth eyes appear to glow red because of the light-reflecting layer in their eyes called the tapetum lucidum. This layer is similar to the tapetum in a cat's eye and reflects light back through the rhabdom layer (the insect equivalent of a retina), which causes the reflected light to appear in a color that depends on the pigments and structure of the moth's eye | Jumping spider & Mo