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Venus Fly Trap

Description: Dionaea muscipula is a carnivorous plant eating insects to collect the necessary animal proteins and other byproducts ... more

Venus Fly Trap ... to sustain life. This plant has a very fast reaction time. As a insect, such as fly, lands on the plants leaves and touches the adaxial receptors, a chemical reaction occurs in the plant. The chemical reaction sets into motion the closing of the leaves in a very quick motion, constructing the insect from moving. The fly is then locked in the leaf, and can't move because of the dewy substance lining the inside. The bug is then "digested".

Newest Review: ... I did not keep the plant that very long. I think I gave it too much hamburger and liked to play with traps. Now, I once ... more

... again own a venus fly trap plant and is trying very hard to keep my plant growing effectively. I do not water it from the top. I only may sprinkle a little water on the plant from the rain outside just to keep it from acquiring fungus. I usually use rain water to water my plant from the bottom in a plastic container pan where my plant sits directly in. I sit the plant out in the sun every chance that it is hot outside to make sure it gets adequate light. I also keep it in a window sill where it can also get ligh...more

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Venus Fly Trap: A little green monster in the house! (704 words)
by janharper - written on 29/07/01 (Very useful, 4538 readings)
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If you are thinking of buying a Venus Fly Trap beware! You have to be prepared to lavish attention on it. If you don't give it exactly what it needs it will die. It won't adapt, or make do in the way some plants do. Treat it like any other ordinary houseplant and you will certainly murder it! Venus Fly Traps are a whole species of carnivorous plants. They come in many varieties. These plants are adapted to live where they can't get nutrients in the normal way from the soil. There are actually over 600 different kinds of meat eating plants and many of them can be grown as houseplants. So, how do you grow them? Well, it varies. Venus ...

It'll eat you alive... (698 words)
by zpyder - written on 24/06/01 (Very useful, 2837 readings)
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The Venus fly-trap (Dionea Muscipula) is definitely the most well know carnivorous plant that is commercially available in today’s world. HABITAT INFORMATION The Venus flytrap, like so many of the other carnivorous plants, is found mostly in or around peat bogs. Most carnivorous plants that grow in this type of habitat thus obtain plenty of sunlight, and lots of water. Because of the properties of the bogs however, there aren’t many nutrients in the soil, and so the plants evolved to obtain their nutrients from somewhere else. Their source of nutrients being the insects they catch. BACKGROUND INFORMATION The first plants ...

Venus Fly Trap: Nature's Fly Catcher! (233 words)
by HeavenlyTwin - written on 09/05/01 (Useful, 3263 readings)
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In these days of chemical consciousness, this plant provides a very useful, no-global-warming, non-polluting answer to one of lifes annoyances - flies and other flying bugs. They are very efficient, and can be quite educational to watch - you can teach children something about nature, as well as keeping the air fly free without adding to pollution, or having to have fly papers hanging everywhere. Children are fascinated by the way they work, so you can provide an ongoing biology/science lesson in your home which also teaches your children an alternative to the solutions they'll be bombarded with in the media and on tv. For some reason, flies are attracted ...

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