Chapter 1
The Carolina home
Chapter 2
The trigger mechanism
Chapter 3
The snap and digest
Chapter 4
Global meat-eating cousins
YOUR GOAL
Master of How Venus flytraps hunt
Ch 4 · Global meat-eating cousins
artiteacher Global meat-eating cousins
Tap me once and I'll wait, tap me twice to make me snap, we gotta count to five to start the feast!
BETA
artiteacher Snap the matching insects to discover how Venus flytraps catch their prey.
Fun Fact
Fastest plant trap: The aquatic bladderwort can vacuum up prey in less than a millisecond, making it the fastest plant on Earth.
Glossary
sundew (noun)
A carnivorous plant of the genus Drosera that traps insects with sticky secretions produced by glandular hairs on its leaves. These flytrap relatives thrive across every continent except Antarctica, trapping insects with glistening, adhesive tentacles.
A carnivorous plant of the genus Drosera that traps insects with sticky secretions produced by glandular hairs on its leaves. These flytrap relatives thrive across every continent except Antarctica, trapping insects with glistening, adhesive tentacles.
Quiz
What scientific term describes how unrelated plants evolved carnivory independently?