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Friend or food? Why Venus flytraps don't eat their pollinators

  • Written by Clyde Sorenson, Professor of Entomology, North Carolina State University
Flowers above, traps below.Clyde Sorenson, CC BY-ND

The Venus flytrap, Dionaea muscipula, lives in a tough neighborhood. It only grows in 12 counties in coastal North and South Carolina, in soils that are very nutrient-poor and often waterlogged. To augment these starvation resources, it captures and digests insects and other animal prey.

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