Why does the Venus Flytrap eat animals?

Answer 1

Venus Flytraps eat flies and insects because their environment resulted in the need for nutrients contained in them. They adapted to that environment and developed the traps for catching flies.

Answer 2

A Venus Flytrap is a secondary consumer. It consumes insects. The insects eat plants and other insects.

However, the Venus Flytrap is also a producer. It makes its own food by photosynthesis. That is why it traps and digests insects - to get the nutrients to manufacture its food, nutrients that are missing from the soil it grows in.

Answer 3

A Venus fly trap is both a producer and a consumer because it can make it's own food to supply the matter and energy it needs to survive and it can catch organisms (flys/biotic elements)

Answer 4

A Venus Flytrap is considered both a consumer and a producer. The Venus Flytrap is considered a consumer because it does eat meat.

Answer 5

Venus flytraps eat small insects like flies. Bigger Venus flytraps may eat small animals like frogs. They do this to get nourishment that they do not get from the soil.