Venus fly traps are like any other plant except for one thing. They eat bugs!!! They Venus fly trap is famous for its snapping "jaws" devour any insect that lands on it. They are like any other plants because they breath in carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen. They eat bugs because they populate nitrogen poor environments. They get their extra nitrogen from the bugs they eat. When a bug land in the mouth of a Venus fly trap, it sets of trigger "hairs" off. Then the carnivorous plant snaps its mouth shut. If the object it snaps on is inedible, it spits it out. If the object is a bug, its mouth clamps and it starts digesting the bug. It takes 24 hours for a Venus fly trap to digest an insect.
I think that a plant shouldn't eat an insect because it isn't nessary for a plant to gt more nutrients than it needs. If the plant needs more nutrients, I think that it should adapt to living in a more nutritional environment. What do you think?
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Joseph,
ReplyDeleteI beleive that Venus Flytraps need to eat insects, not only because it grows in a low nutritional environment, but because it cannot absorb much nitrogen otherwise. I enjoyed reading your post and found out much about VenusFlytraps (I thought that they ate insects for protein, not nitrogen.) I hope you post articles as informal and interesting as this one in the future.
Joe,
ReplyDeleteI disagree with your concept. Not only does the plant need extra nutrients but needs to control fly population. Where it lives flies are everywhere. Flies carry many diseases so to equal them out is good. Some animals are perfect how they are.