>>234984784Oh yeah, if you're talking about the horned lizard twins, they aren't clones. They're just rocking the same sexy secretary look, which is the best kind of look.
I hope Blattodea gets some secretary in glasses too, there are lots of bugs with cool eye powers. Charcoal beetles have heat-detecting "eyes" behind their legs, which they use to track forest fires and lay their eggs in burned wood after the competition's been cleared away. Yoriko already covers strepsipterans, but they also have really cool raspberry eyes that, unlike compound eyes, form individual images in each lens and recombine the information in the brain (speaking of brains, some strepsipteran larvae are so small that the brain had relocate fully into the abdomen, their heads are literally empty except for eyes).
Sunburst diving beetle larvae have a hyper-accurate tracking system made out of 12 eyes: the first and second pairs, with bifocal lenses and three retinas each, have a narrow range of vision but can track unerringly within that range, while the other 4 pairs are broad-range "target finding" eyes. Same deal with whirligig beetles, which split their eyes into water-seeing and air-seeing halves... and in one species, Dineutus sublineatus, the larva even prematurely develops the adult optical lobe to increase its tracking efficiency - at the cost of losing some of its sight as an adult, because the developmental pathway has already been "used up"!
Whirligigs have other cool traits, like raptorial forelegs and antennae that detect surface waves, so they aren't one-trick ponies either. I could see our Water Strider fighting a mesugaki sniper who looks down on adults and uses some kind of high-tech headset. Water bug mirror match! Can our melee-range swimming teacher provide guidance to a cheeky loli who can see, hear, and feel her coming from miles away? Both whirligigs and water striders secrete defensive chemicals into the water, so who's going to pee into the pool in fear first?
