The story for kids
A Venus flytrap. This plant catches flies and ants! Its leaves are like open jaws. When a bug touches the little hairs, the leaf snaps shut fast. From bugs, it gets the food that poor soil doesn't have.
Facts
- This plant catches flies and ants.
- Its leaves are like open jaws: when an insect touches the little hairs, the leaf snaps shut.
- From insects it gets the food that poor soil doesn't have.
Numbers
- Size
- 5–15 cm
- Grows in
- Bogs
- Loves
- Sun and moisture
- Reproduces
- Seeds
For grown-ups
The Venus flytrap grows in nitrogen-poor bogs. Inside the trap are sensitive trigger hairs. When an insect touches them twice within a short time, the trap snaps shut in a fraction of a second, and the plant digests its prey.