Sentences with phrase «flytrap plant»

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They collected flytrap flower visitors and prey from three sites in Pender County, North Carolina, on four days in May and June 2016, being careful not to damage the plants.

And most people who raise flytraps cut off the flowers so the plant can put more energy into making traps.

Take the Venus» flytrap, a carnivorous plant native to the wetlands of the Carolinas.

Sundews, pitcher plants and other carnivorous species also supplement their diets with insects, but it seems that only the flytraps have learned to count.

On at least a half - dozen occasions, however, plants turned the tables and became predators: the sundew with its sticky tentacles, pitcher plants with their beckoning pools of enzymes, and the flytrap with its swift clamp of death.

In spite of their sedentary reputations (putting down roots being, perhaps, the ultimate symbol of stability), plants are capable of a surprising range of movements, and not just the Venus flytraps of the world.

Scientists have for the first time discovered which insects pollinate a rare carnivorous plant called the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)-- and...

Venus flytrap A carnivorous plant with a specialized leaf that acts as a trap for insects.

After a Venus flytrap captures an insect inside the «trap» at the end of a stem, the struggle of its prey switches on the plant's digestion.

For Venus flytraps and any other plant, nitrogen is an important nutrient for growth.

Not that it matters, as the giant plant life that covers the ruins has taken to consuming whatever comes near, like a giant Venus flytrap with a hunger for human flesh.

The flora, including pitcher plants and Venus flytraps, is equally enticing.

Most notable is the discovery that certain carnivorous plants — the sundews and Venus flytrap (Droseraceae) and Old World pitcher plants (Nepenthaceae)-- are closely related to Cronquist's Caryophyllidae (Albert et al. 1992; Chase et al. 1993; Williams et al. 1994; Meimberg et al. 2000; Cuénoud et al. 2002).

The flytrap senses the landing of a delicious insect, drawn there by the plant's irresistible scent, and then wham, the plant's open mouth - leaves slams shut.

«The carnivorous plant Dionaea muscipula, also known as Venus flytrap, can count how often it has been touched by an insect visiting its capture organ in order to trap and consume the animal prey,» says Rainer Hedrich of Universität Würzburg in Germany.