Carnivorous Plants Story
Picture book for a young audience /
Kindle Edition
by
Makoto Honda
Copyright (c) 2013-2017 by Makoto Honda.
All Rights Reserved.
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Snap-Traps The famous Venus flytrap uses a snap-trap, sometimes also called a steel trap or bear trap. In this trap, a clamshell-shaped leaf snaps from both sides with amazing speed when an insect enters. The force of the trap closure is so strong that the victim is often crushed. In this trap, the leaf has sensitive trigger hairs which trip the closing mechanism of the trap. Besides the Venus flytrap, only one species - an aquatic waterwheel plant - shares this most advanced and amazing method of capturing.
A Venus
flytrap snapping a fly.
Touch-sensitive traps of Venus flytrap plants in cultivation.
A crane fly
caught in the trap of a Venus flytrap.
A few days
later, the lobes open to reveal the consumed remains of the crane fly.
Besides the
Venus flytrap, there is only one other species of carnivorous plant that uses a
snap-trap to capture prey: the water-wheel plant (Aldrovanda). This is an
aquatic cousin of the Venus flytrap, occurring in many parts of the Old World.
In the
water-wheel plant, a tiny, shell-shaped leaf in the water snaps shut, just like
the Venus flytrap, in order to capture small aquatic prey.
INTRODUCTION PITFALL TRAPS FLYPAPER TRAPS SNAP-TRAPS SUCTION TRAPS VENUS FLYTRAP SUNDEWS PITCHER PLANTS COBRA PLANT BUTTERWORTS BLADDERWORTS
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