A nerdy junior high student who works in a floral shop cares for a prehistoric talking Venus Fly Trap which has supernatural abilities. A nerdy junior high student who works in a floral shop cares for a prehistoric talking Venus Fly Trap which has supernatural abilities.

Within a very short period of time. Then the Trap will snap shut. But why does it have to be two times. It is actually a mechanism that the plant has developed to ensure it is capturing life prey.

1. They are native only to North and South Carolina. While Venus flytraps have been planted and naturalized in other areas, they only occur naturally within a 75-mile radius around Wilmington, North Carolina. This area is primarily in North Carolina, but it also includes a few South Carolina counties.

And probably is being kept way too warm. Now during the months of october. November. All right so to wrap this all up here we have a great example of a venus flytrap. That's going dormant.

The Venus flytrap gets the "Venus" part of its name because its flowers are really pretty (like the goddess Venus) and are white, like the planet Venus in the sky. The plant is not from Venus. The "Flytrap" part comes from its obvious bug-eating attributes.

Despite the impression you might get from the movie Little Shop of Horrors, Venus flytraps are not particularly dangerous plants. They are among the few carnivorous plants, though, so it's expected that people may have questions about them, like are Venus flytraps safe around kids? The answer is absolutely yes.

There are more than 575 kinds of plants that supplement their food supply with insects. Venus flytraps gather nutrients from gases in the air and from the soil. They live in nitrogen poor environments so they have adapted to gathering additional nutrients from insects.

The plant originally was called Venus's flytrap, named for the Roman goddess of love. Its first known reference came in a letter from North Carolina colonial governor Arthur Dobbs to English botanist Peter Collinson dated April 2, 1759.

And these rules are very easy to follow just always stick to an insect and a spider diet. Never a feed your venus fly trap any type of human. Food. So anything like candy fruit meat regardless if it's

Venus flytrap, (Dionaea muscipula), also called Venus's flytrap, perennial carnivorous plant of the sundew family (Droseraceae), notable for its unusual habit of catching and digesting insects and other small animals.

Dionaea muscipula Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea muscipula) | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

The impact average force between rims of two lobes in the Venus flytrap was found equal to 149 mN and the corresponding pressure between the rims was about 41 kPa. Direct measurements of the constriction force in the trap of Dionaea muscipula was performed during gelatin digestion.