VENUS FLYTRAP JAWS OF DOOM!! 2014 compilation
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Feed me Seymour! Summer 2014 compilation of my Venus flytrap Audrey catching bugs. Shot from my phone, so the quality isn't great. The insects trigger the traps, and the carnage begins. The carnivorous plant manages to catch flies, a spider, a cricket, and a beetle. I tried to get some post digestion shots after it eats them. I hope you will enjoy!
The Venus flytrap (also Venus's flytrap or Venus' flytrap), Dionaea muscipula, is a carnivorous plant native to subtropical wetlands on the East Coast of the United States in North Carolina and South Carolina. It catches its prey—chiefly insects and arachnids— with a trapping structure formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant's leaves and is triggered by tiny hairs on their inner surfaces. When an insect or spider crawling along the leaves contacts a hair, the trap closes if a different hair is contacted within twenty seconds of the first strike. The requirement of redundant triggering in this mechanism serves as a safeguard against a waste of energy in trapping objects with no nutritional value.
Dionaea is a monotypic genus closely related to the waterwheel plant and sundews, all of which belong to the family Droseraceae.