April is Carnivorous Plant Month! Because I said so. This week, we’re talking about one of Charles Darwin’s favorite plants, the Venus Flytrap.

Music by James Milor from Pixabay

Information provided by:

https://www.zmescience.com/science/venus-flytrap/
https://cnr.ncsu.edu/news/2021/01/five-things-about-venus-flytraps/
Testing Darwin’s hypothesis about the wonderful Venus flytrap: marginal spikes form a ‘horrid prison’ for moderate-sized insect prey by Alexander L. Davis, et al. (2019) https://doi.org/10.1086%2F701433
https://www.fws.gov/species/venus-fly-trap-dionaea-muscipula
https://www.the-scientist.com/how-the-venus-flytrap-captures-its-prey-71429

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