After a round of trying press interviews, Kristi Noem prefers to take time to let her hair down, take off her make-up, and really enjoy a meal for once.
Serious question: why do they always look like they are looking right at you? is it that they’re absorbing all the light all around them and the dark spot is just “your” light?
IIRC mantis eyes are a series of small holes/tubes angled in different directions. You can see into the ones that are faced directly towards you down to (I assume) some photoreceptor like our pupils, but the other holes are occluded.