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Venus Flytrap
The Venus Fly Trap is a carnivorous plant native to nitrogen poor environments. All questions about Venus Flytraps can be directed here.
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What is the Venus Flytrap's competition?
The Venus flytrap must compete with other insect-eating plants in its habitat, such as the pitcher plant, which traps insects in sticky liquid inside a vase-like flower. It also must compete for food with spiders, lizards, birds, and other creatures that share its environment and diet.
What are the adaptations of a Venus Flytrap?
Venus fly-traps have two leaf parts: a leaf base and a leaf blade. A Venus fly-trap grows out of the ground with its broad and flat leaf base, which carries out photosynthesis.
Trapping Mechanism
The second leaf part of a Venus fly-trap is its trapping mechanism, also referred to as the trap, leaf-blade or lamina.
Ends of leaves are composed of two lobes hinged together that can open and close in order to trap a small insect.
Trigger Hairs
Venus fly-traps usually have several trigger hairs growing on each trap lobe. When an insect lands on a Venus fly-trap and moves around, trigger hairs know that it is live prey that can be trapped and eaten.
Venus Fly-trap Teeth
The egdes of a Venus fly-trap have teeth and look fingerlike. The teeth lace together when an insect is trapped by the plant.
Petiole
The two leaf parts of a Venus fly-trap, the leaf blade and leaf base, are joined together by a small stalk called the petiole.
They have many sensitive trigger hairs.
The Venus Flytrap attracts insects to it by its bright colour and scent. When an animal triggers 2 of its trigger hairs inside one of its mouths (leaves) the trap shuts tight and the animal/insect is slowly digested over a period of around 10 days.
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Since the Venus fly trap lives in boggy, wet habitats, they have had to adapt to survive and live there. Venus fly traps have special hairs inside the trap that once touched, trigger the trap to suddenly shut. If the fly inside is caught, enzymes will digest the pray to get much needed vitamins that the bog does not have. The flies think the trap is a flower and fly into it without a second thought.
Why do Venus Flytraps die after eating three or four flies?
Venus Flytraps are carnivores. Carnivores eat meat. The Venus Flytrap is forced to eat flies as there is not enough nutrients in its boggy environment.
Venus Flytraps and other insectivorous plants usually grow in peat bogs or other locations that are very poor in nitrogen. The bug eating adaptation is a way for the plant to supplement its nitrogen intake.
It's not just flies. Venus fly traps will consume anything they can trap in their specialized leaves. The protein and nutrients found in insects and even small amphibians provides a boost for the plant which traditionally grows in soil of very poor quality.
Where do you buy a Venus fly trap?
Well, I got my first one at Market Basket.
I have also heard that they have some at a local plant nursery.
I think Market Basket is your best bet because I saw that they had many carnivorous plants and my Venus Fly Trap lasted for awhile but, it couldn't make it through the winter. In June, I got one and it's still alive and VERY healthy.
Is a Venus Flytrap a heterotroph or autotroph?
It is an autotroph. It doesn't need to eat flies to survive. I had a venus fly trap and never gave it flies and it lived just fine with photosynthesis. Heterotrophs need to eat others to live.
Can you escape from a Venus Flytrap's trap?
Yes. Since we are human, and considerably larger than the Flytrap, we wouldn't get eaten by the Flytrap in the first place.
How many chromosomes do Venus Flytraps have?
Well, isn't that just a happy little question! Venus Flytraps have 2n = 20 chromosomes in their cells. Just like each brushstroke adds beauty to a painting, each chromosome plays a special role in the growth and development of these fascinating plants. Keep exploring the wonders of nature, my friend!
What kind of soil does the Venus Flytrap grow in?
The Venus Flytrap is a small plant whose structure can be described as a rosette of four to seven leaves, which arise from a short subterranean stem that is actually a bulb-like object. Each stem reaches a maximum size of about three to ten centimeters, depending on the time of year; longer leaves with robust traps are usually formed after flowering. Flytraps that have more than 7 leaves are colonies formed by rosettes that have divided beneath the ground.
Venus Flytraps are small plants. They consist of several stems pointing upward, and at the end of each one is a trap. The trap looks like two flat circles, attached to each other like a hinge where they meet the stem. Around the edge of the trap, there are long, needle like projections that function as the triggers for the trap, interlock when the trap closes.
You can see a photograph of a Venus flytrap by visiting the related link.
It looks like a series of mouths with no eyes and hairs in the mouth. See the related link below.
Why does a Venus Flytrap have spikes?
Those spines create a 'cage like structure' to enclose its pray in. When a fly enters one of the Venus Flytrap's trigger mouths, the cage closes in on the fly and slowly digests it over the course of around 10 days.
Is the Venus's-flytrap finicky about where it grows in the wild?
Yes. Venus Flytraps only grow in poor, nutrient-depleted soil - usually sandy/wet/peaty soil. Since they cannot get their nutrients from the soil, they rely on living things (insects) to provide this.
Is the Venus Flytrap an invertebrate or a vertabrate?
No, venus flytraps are invertebrates, meaning they have no backbone
What does a bladderwort look like?
they are just like Venus fly traps they are plant that live in swampy fresh water areas that have no roots they have small bristles inside there mouth that when they are brushed slam shut trapping the insect they then are sprayed with a sticking substance that makes it easier for digestion.
What happens to a venus flytrap when it eats to much?
If you over feed your venus flytrap many of your traps will die quickly sinse they can only be used 3-5 times before dieing. This may kill your traps faster than you can make some and you may end up killing the plant if you keep on feeding a trap evrey time it opens.
Is a Venus Flytrap a decomposer?
No, it is a producer. Venus Flytraps and other carnivorous plants tend to live in areas where the soil has little or no accessible nutrients. These include but are not limited to nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus. To get these nutrients these plants attracts organisms, typically insects, and kill them. In the case of a Venus Flytrap, the insect is caught and digested. Despite this the plant still performs photosynthesis to gain energy, which is why it is a producer.
How do trigger hairs help the Venus Flytrap?
The trigger hairs in the Venus Flytrap help it catch food. A Venus Flytrap's mouth has the triggers hairs on its base so when the fly lands on it and touches a couple of the triggers hairs, it triggers the mouth to close. This is an important and valuable adaptation for the plant in order to survive.
Can Venus Flytraps eat raw hamburger?
Venus Flytraps should not be fed meat such as raw hamburger. Meat will eventually kill the Venus Fly Trap. The only thing a Venus Flytrap should eat is insects.
Is the Venus Flytrap a plant or an animal?
The Venus Flytrap are plants due to how their cells are made up. The Venus Flytrap contains plant cells and does not go through respiration like an animal does.
How long does it take for a Venus Flytrap to digest a fly?
Not very fast at all; one would be tempted to say slowly. The ability of the plant to capture something as fleet as a fly is that it lures the fly into a position of impending capture, between its fangs, so that a little movement effects the capture.
It also depends on the health of the plant.
Is there another name for a Venus Flytrap?
There are hundreds of species of plants which are truly carnivorous or insectivorous. There are only two species of plant which trap arthropods using a "snap trap" method of enclosing leaves around prey; the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) and the Waterwheel plant (Aldrovanda vesiculosa) which is aquatic.
Other well-known carnivorous plants are sundews (which trap insects with sticky hairs), Pitcher Plants (which use slippery sided, pitcher shaped leaves as pit falls) and Bladderworts (which suck creatures into little ballon-like sturctures under water).
What is the Binomial nomenclature name of a Venus Flytrap?
The scientific name for the venus flytrap is Dionaea muscipula.
It belongs in the kingdom Plantae, division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Caryophyllales, family Droseraceae, genus Dionaea.
Dionaea Muscipula
Why do you think a Venus flytrap hair needs to be touched more than once when its raining?
The trap does not close every time a trigger hair is touched because a lot of energy would be used up this way
What happens if you feed cheese to Venus Flytraps?
The Dionaea Muscipula digestion is made to break down insects and spiders. Feeding a Venus Flytrap cheese or meat can harm the plant. Cheese and meat can begin to spoil before the plant can begin to properly digest them. You may be able to feed these foods to a Venus Flytrap but you risk making the plant sick and even killing it.
