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How do Venus Flytraps live?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

The Venus Flytraps works off the nutrients of other organisms around them. The soil they live on is so poor in nutrients that for the plant to survive it had to find other means of nutrition. By eating. The way it does that is by a trigger system inside the "mouth" of the plant. There are 3 small hairs inside on each part of the leaf that makes up the mouth. When any two hairs get triggered at the same time, the mouth will close and seal what ever is in. Once caught, they will stay closed for any where between 4 to 10 days where it will release special enzymes to digest its pray. Anything that didn't get digested will be discarded once the mouth reopens. The Venus Flytrap mainly lives on insects.

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13y ago

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