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Most people will recognize the Venus Fly Trap, a plant famous for feeding on insects and arachnids. Dionaea muscipula is carnivorous. It closes its jaws when two separate hairs on its surface are moved in succession. These hairs are called trichomes.

Most people will recognize the Venus Fly Trap, a plant famous for feeding on insects and arachnids. Dionaea muscipula is carnivorous. It closes its jaws when two separate hairs on its surface are moved in succession. These hairs are called trichomes.

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    my pet
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    My favourite plant, I used to spend hours hunting down flies...feeding them to this little...
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    I will own one of these someday…
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    the wild, but never one of these.
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    my seed never grew.
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    I did not know that that’s how it feeds, that is amazing.
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