2006-06-29 00:21:17 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
secretes juices that digest the insect, then absorbs it's liquid meal
2006-06-29 00:24:28 · answer #1 · answered by lildakini 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi !! As far as i know about it......
Venus’s-Flytrap, also known as Venus flytrap, common name for a plant that feeds on insects and other small animals, native to North and South Carolina. The outer portion of each leaf is modified to form a trap. It is divided into two halves, with margins bearing long, sharp spines. At the center of the leaf are trigger hairs to spring the trap. When an insect or other creature, attracted by sweet fluids exuded by the plant, lands on this portion of the leaf, it touches the trigger hairs. The leaf snaps shut around its prey, and the spines keep the prey from escaping. When the soft tissues of the creature have been digested by glands within the leaf, the leaf reopens.
The Venus's-flytrap derives nitrogen from insects and other animals, because the soil in bogs is poor in that nutrient. When cultivated and supplied with nitrogen by other means, the plant does not require these creatures as food.
This all about the insectivorous plant u have been asking about.Hope i have answered ur question.
2006-07-03 01:23:00 · answer #2 · answered by geetika s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
visit www.sarracenia.com that is a great site that will give u plenty details. the trap is hermetically sealed first, then filled with digestive juices, digestiontakes place, then the trap is opened after a couple of days. if you snap an empty trap or if u "feed" it with something like stone, plastics , it will open shortly - it will know that there is nothning to digest
2006-06-29 07:44:32 · answer #3 · answered by iva 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The VFTs grow in nitrogen poor soil and borrow nitrogen from the flies it traps although hamburger works just as well. Used traps don't seem to work as well as new ones so it constantly grows new traps.
2006-06-29 08:32:04 · answer #4 · answered by Kes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dissolves it in its digestive secretions in order to absorb the nutrients contained in the insect.
2006-06-29 11:31:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i always thought venus fly traps were mythological creatures.
meh
i spose, if they're really real, they eat the flies
2006-06-29 07:29:25 · answer #6 · answered by purplepoppyfigs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's eating it. Disolves the insect and sucks the fluids. Must be yummy.
2006-06-29 07:25:51 · answer #7 · answered by buried answers - start digging 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To get nitrogen so they plant can regulate itself. Nitrogen is needed to do chemical reactions.
2006-06-29 14:59:25 · answer #8 · answered by KrazyK784 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it sucks the nitrogen out of it and eats it.
2006-06-29 07:24:29 · answer #9 · answered by hkyboy96 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
extract nitrogen from it
2006-07-05 06:28:55 · answer #10 · answered by SHALINI S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋