The Venus flytrap is one of the most famous weird plants. To supplement its steady diet of sunshine, it catches insects and other bugs in the most ingenious manner. To attract bugs, it produces sweet nectar. Then, using special catching pods, it traps the bugs. The really neat part about the trapping, though, is that the pod does not snap shut on the victim until trigger hairs inside the pod are jostled. And to prevent false alarms, the hairs have to be triggered more than one so random debris doesn’t trigger the pods but only live things. Isn’t the design of the Venus flytrap awesomely incredible?Linkies:
Google video!
Another Google video!
Wikipedia (with some pics)
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