Chapter 1
The math-loving monster
Chapter 2
The Carolina homebody
Chapter 3
Keeping love and lunch separate
Chapter 4
The dirty-minded botanists
Chapter 5
The underground botanical heist
YOUR GOAL
Master of Inside the secret jaws of the Venus flytrap
Ch 3 · Keeping love and lunch separate
alicecooks Venus Flytrap Pollination
My blossoms reach up high into the sky, So I don't eat the bees that wander by.
alicecooks Each stem carries an umbel of four to ten five-petaled, cup-shaped flowers that produce sweet-scented nectar to welcome
alicecooks Pop art prints feature the green sweat bee, checkered beetle, and longhorn beetle.
Fun Fact
Flower bodyguards: Venus flytraps grow flowers on stalks up to 18 inches tall so they do not accidentally eat their own pollinators.
Glossary
pollinator (noun)
An animal that transfers pollen from one flower to another to allow plant reproduction. To protect these insects, Venus flytraps grow flowers on stalks up to twelve inches above the traps.
An animal that transfers pollen from one flower to another to allow plant reproduction. To protect these insects, Venus flytraps grow flowers on stalks up to twelve inches above the traps.