Venus Flytrap – The Plants Catch And Digest Insects
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The Venus flytrap is a carnivorous plant and native to subtropical wetlands of the United States in North Carolina and South Carolina. The Venus flytrap prey is limited to beetles, spiders and other crawling arthropods.
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The Venus flytrap typically grows in soils that have really bad nutrients available for them to utilize. This is why they capture and digest insects.
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Venus Flytrap (Photo Credit: Mike Linksvayer / Public Domain)
They are able to obtain their nutrients from these insects. These plants will live for 20 to 30 years. On each lobe you will find 6 trigger hairs. The trigger hairs must be stimulated twice before the Venus flytrap will respond and capture the insect.
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