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It survives in wet sandy and peaty soils. Although it has been successfully transplanted and grown in many locales around the world, it is found natively only in North and South Carolina in the United States
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∙ 14y agoThe Venus flytrap has some sort of digestive system.
First, it lures its victim with sweet-smelling nectar. Unsuspecting prey land on the leaf and trip on the bristly trigger hairs and find themselves imprisoned behind the interlocking teeth of the leaf edges.
There are between three and six trigger hairs on the surface of each leaf. If the same hair is touched twice or if two hairs are touched within a 20-second interval, the cells on the outer surface of the leaf expand rapidly, and the trap snaps shut instantly.
If insect secretions, such as uric acid, stimulate the trap, it will clamp down further on the prey and form an airtight seal. Once the trap closes, the digestive glands that line the interior edge of the leaf secrete fluids that dissolve the soft parts of the prey, kill bacteria and fungi, and break down the insect with enzymes to extract the essential nutrients. These nutrients are absorbed into the leaf, and five to 12 days following capture, the trap will reopen to release the leftover exoskeleton.
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∙ 13y agothe venus fly trap has a sticky substance layered on the inside of the flower. this is what attracts the insect. the insect land on the flower and is not stuck to it. the flower closes trapping the prey inside.
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∙ 14y agoby eating them
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∙ 12y agothey eat their Bran
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What do fly traps eat?
flies?
Is a grasshopper a primary consumer or secondary consumer?
No,it would only be a primary consumer. Because it does not eat any other type of food beside the honey they make. And that honey comes from the necter from a plant which in this case would be the producer.
What Living Things Eat Insects?
Many different types of living things eat insects. Here are just a few: * Birds * Humans * Cats * Lizards * Reptiles * Frogs * Newts * Monkeys * Fish * Venus Fly Trap
What do call a spider that traps a fat fly in her web?
A spider.
Do insects make their own food?
Carnivorous plants - such as the Venus Fly-trap, Pitcher and Sundew - make their food from dissolving the bodies of the insects that are trapped. The plant excretes enzymes to break-down the tissues of the insects, and the plant absorbs the nutrients.
Do people eat fly traps?
why would people eat venus fly traps, the fly traps eat insects.
Do Venus fly traps eat ladybugs?
Its leaves fold together (like a closing book) to trap insects.
Do Venus Fly Traps eliminate aphids?
No, Venus Fly Traps do not eliminate aphids.Specifically, the plant in question (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivore that includes insects among its prey. By consuming insects, a Venus Fly Trap makes up for a lack of nutrients in the soils in which it tends to grow. But aphids (Aphidoidea superfamily) mature to sizes that are too small for Venus Fly Traps to consume.
How is the venus flytrap born?
Venus fly traps are carnivorous plants that capture, kill and eat their food. The Venus fly trap is a bulb plant, and the traps themselves develop from flowers.
Do venue fly traps eat anything?
A venue fly trap is a carnivorous plant that eats insects.
How Venus Fly Trap traps insects?
its mouth has sharp teeth and it doesn't basically eat the insect it kill the fly and eats part by part
Do Venus's fly traps have gas?
I don't think venus fly traps have gas.
What eats the Venus fly traps?
The Venus Flytrap is a carnivorous plant. It takes nutrients from insects and Spiders that become trapped inside its leaves.
Do venus fly traps reproduce sexually or asexually and how do they reproduce?
Venus Flytraps are flowering plants, and reproduce by being cross pollinated by insects.
Does a Venus Fly Trap hurt when they bite people?
Generally not with the standard small Venus Fly traps.
Where there any Venus fly traps in the renaissance period Were they in any paintings?
no there were no venus fly traps. but there where paintings.
Can plants eat insects?
Venus fly-traps and pitcher plants who has digestive enzymes to engulf insect's nutrition.
