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How I eat The gVeetnsunsuftlryietrnatps lives in poor soil,
and from insects.
Inside the trap are tiny super-
sensitive hair. Once an insect is
inside my trap, and if it touches
one of the hair more than once,
the trap closes halfway. If it’s a
small insect, I don’t waste my
time and let it free but if it’s big
enough, I shut my trap fully and
digest the insect with the help of
juices present inside the trap.

Dying Venus flytrap Did you know?

Humans have taken over Venus flytrap-like plants are common in
large portions of my fictional works. They are usually larger, and
home for their activities, shown to be capable of digesting a human
pushing my family towards
extinction. Moreover, there being. In the 1960 film, The Little Shop of
are not enough fires in our Horrors, a flytrap-like alien plant lives on
home, which we need in human blood and eventually grows large
order to clean it and to drive
away rival plants. Also, enough to swallow people whole!
humans collect my family in
large numbers because we
are so unusual.

All is not lost

The law in the United States

makes it illegal for people to CR

collect members of my family EN

from the wild. Also, humans are LE

trying to stabilize our population VU

by growing us artificially. It is

most important, however, to save VULNERAB

my home because that is the only

There is a big fine place in the world where I can
for taking Venus live comfortably.
flytraps from their
native habitat in
the United States.
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