Scientific Name: Dionaea muscipula
The Venus Flytrap is a carnivores planet. This means that it eats meat. They are very peculiar as they have no brain, nervous system or muscles and yet are able to trap and swallow insects.
The Venus flytrap attracts its food (insects) by covering its leaves in nectar. If an insect lands on its leaf it is safe for it to eat as long as it does not trigger 2 of the 6 tiny hairs on the leaf in a 20 second period. If they do touch them an electrical signal will run through the leaves and they will snap shut in a fraction of a second, trapping the insect. It has special tips at the end of the leaf that closes to gather like prison bars making it extremely difficult for anything to escape.
To eat its victim it secretes digestive juices from its leaves, much like our stomachs, which dissolve the soft inner parts of the insect. Once it has digested everything the trap reabsorbs the fluid and after ten days the trap reopens. All that remains of the insect is its case/shell.
They also get nutrients from gases in the air as well as nutrients from the soil. However, they live in very poor soil and so have to revert to insects to get everything they need.
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