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Yellow_XIII t1_jc5k64q wrote

What eyes?

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Heggy5 t1_jc5shx0 wrote

I zoomed in looking for eyes. I couldn't find any. But right in the center there is something that I can't work out.. looks like a creature. Then I realised this is r/EarthPorn not r/Creepy

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AFriendlyRedditUser2 t1_jc5uv2v wrote

I’m guessing OP meant the knots on the trees? They kinda look like eyes if you don’t look hard enough

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seanbrockest t1_jc661yd wrote

In many countries knots are also known as eyes, but usually after they're cut into lumber.

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Swajjjj t1_jc60hiz wrote

Looks like stump with moss growing on it

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foospork t1_jc7a1td wrote

I live in the forest in Virginia.

If you go outside at night and shine a bright light, you’ll see hundreds of little green sparkles - the green color you see if you burn copper. I always thought these green sparkles were water droplets, dew, on the leaves on the forest floor.

One night I noticed that a particularly large sparkle seemed to move a little, so I bent down to see it closer.

I discovered that the green sparkles were the eyes of wolf spiders, these large but harmless spiders that are common around here.

I then realized that ALL of those hundreds of green sparkles were spiders’ eyes. Hundreds and hundreds of them.

And then that big one made a run at me.

I got back in the house real quick.

So, yeah: those woods in the picture are probably full of thousands of spiders, you just can’t see them in this photo.

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seanbrockest t1_jc666sf wrote

When you cut through a knot while turning a log into lumber, the resulting mark is sometimes called an eye. I've never heard it applied to a live tree though.

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