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	Venus Flytrap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Venus flytrap is found in nutrient-poor bogs in the southeastern United States, mainly within a 100-mile radius of Wilmington, North Carolina.
		Venus flytraps are popular as cultivated plants, especially in North Carolina itself.
		Venus flytraps are entirely capable of catching their own food; thus, feeding them oneself isn't necessary.
	www.bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/v/ve/venus_flytrap.html (695 words)

	Venus Flytrap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant that catches and digests animal prey (mostly insects and arachnids).
		Flytraps that appear to have more leaves are generally colonies, formed by rosettes that have divided beneath the ground.
		The Venus Flytrap is one of a very small group of plants that are capable of rapid movement, such as Mimosa, the Telegraph plant, sundews and bladderworts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Venus_Flytrap (1564 words)

	Venus Flytrap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant.
		The Venus flytrap is found in nutrient-poor bogs in the southeastern United States mainly a 100-mile radius of Wilmington North Carolina.
		Venus flytraps are capable of catching their own food; thus them oneself isn't necessary.
	www.freeglossary.com /Venus's-Flytrap (818 words)

	Venus Flytrap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Venus flytrap is found in nutrient-poor bogs in the southeastern United States, mainlywithin a 100-mile radius of Wilmington, NorthCarolina.
		Venus flytraps must not be watered with tap water; accumulated salts cause most carnivorous plants —; includingVenus flytraps — to slowly die.
		Venus flytrap-like plants are very common as beasts in fictional works, usually in a much larger form capable of digesting ahuman.
	www.therfcc.org /venus-flytrap-118373.html (777 words)

	Floridata: Dionaea muscipula
		Venus flytrap is native to bogs and wet seepage areas that lie between longleaf pine savannas and shrub bogs (pocossins) on the Coastal Plain in the vicinity of Wilmington, North Carolina - from the Santee River in Charleston County, SC, to Beaufort County, NC.
		Venus flytrap is relatively easy to keep alive in a terrarium for a few weeks, but few people have a green enough thumb to keep one alive for more than a year.
		Venus flytrap is easy to propagate from leaf cuttings taken in spring or summer and inserted in damp sand.
	www.floridata.com /ref/d/dion_mus.cfm (1207 words)

	Venus flytrap - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Venus flytrap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Venus flytrap is native to the swamp lands of Carolina.
		The trap is sprung when insects, attracted by the colour and nectar, touch trigger hairs on the faces of the leaves.
		The Venus flytrap is a carnivorous plant native to the bogs of the southeastern USA.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Venus%20flytrap (216 words)

	Grow Carnivorous Plants - Info on the care of the Venus Flytrap.
		The Venus Flytrap is the most popular carnivorous plant, and definitely the most readily available of all carnivorous plants.
		Because the traps of a Flytrap resemble clamshells, and they are found growing along the coastal range of North Carolina, people in the region thought it cute to name it Venus Flytrap.
		Venus Flytraps tend to grow faster and bigger when their roots have room to grow.
	www.cobraplant.com /venus-flytrap.html (1445 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Snaring secrets of the Venus flytrap
		While "speed" is not a word most people associate with the plant kingdom, the Venus flytrap closes its v-shaped leaves in just one-tenth of a second - fast enough to accomplish a feat thousands if not millions of backyard barbecuers fail at each summer: snaring a fly.
		Mahadevan likened the Venus flytrap's hinged leaves to a plastic lid that is bowed in one direction and then suddenly pops the other way.
		Though the workings of a familiar, but unusual plant such as the Venus flytrap seem a prime subject for scientific study, Mahadevan said he was not surprised to learn that it is poorly understood.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/daily/2005/01/26-flytrap.html (619 words)

	How to grow and care for Venus Fly Trap. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Venus Flytrap is a favorite plant of anyone who has been exposed to it.
		Venus Flytrap are native to North and South Carolina but are endangered because of development.
		There are many forms of Venus Fly trap, from pure green, green on the outside of the traps and red on the inside, and all red.
	www.the-venus-flytrap.com /venus-flytrap-help.html (3638 words)

	ACS :: Venus Flytrap
		The Venus flytrap is a perennial plant that traps and eats insects.
		Liquid extracts of Venus flytrap, including Carnivora, do not appear to be toxic when taken by mouth, but not enough is known about the active ingredients for scientists to ensure that it is safe.
		Plumbagin, an ingredient in Venus flytrap, is known to cause toxic side effects such as diarrhea, skin rash, liver damage, and abnormal blood counts.
	www.cancer.org /docroot/eto/content/eto_5_3x_venus_flytrap.asp?sitearea=eto (1232 words)

	VENUS FLYTRAP
		The Venus flytrap is a small carnivorous plant from North Carolina, in the southeastern United States.
		Each trap on a Venus flytrap plant has sensitive hairs that signal the plant when it is touched and cause it to close quickly.
		Venus flytraps thrive in a humid environment with bright light and acid soil (sphagnum moss works well).
	www.zoomdinosaurs.com /subjects/plants/flowers/Flytrap.shtml (335 words)

	LiveScience.com - Venus Flytrap's Speed Secret Revealed
		Like most lenses, Venus flytrap leaves are doubly curved, that is, curved in two directions, which allows the leaves to store elastic energy.
		Venus flytraps, which live only in bogs in North and South Carolina and have become endangered, can gather nutrients from gases in the air and the soil, but they prefer poor soil and are healthier if they consume a meaty housefly or two every month.
		Venus flytraps exhibit one of the fastest movements in the plant kingdom, competing in speed tests with the exploding fruits of flowering plants.
	www.livescience.com /othernews/050126_venus_flytrap.html (623 words)

	Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Ask the Experts: Biology: How does the Venus flytrap digest flies? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Venus flytrap occurs in a very restricted range in sandy shrub-bogs in coastal North and South Carolina, where it is listed as an endangered species.
		Hence, Venus flytraps have a corner on the nitrogen market immediately following fire, when they obtain three quarters of their nitrogen supply from insect prey.
		Venus flytraps provide a fascinating example of how organisms adapt to stressful conditions, in this case behaving as predators to make up for the nutrient deficiencies in the surrounding soil.
	www.sciam.com /askexpert_question.cfm?articleID=00045544-C58D-1D5B-90FB809EC5880000&catID=3&topicID=3 (533 words)

	JAWS, Wayne Schmidt's Venus Flytrap Page
		Venus Fly Traps, Dionaea Muscipula, are unique in the plant world in that they consist of only one species (they're monotypic), although plant breeders have developed several cultivars from nursery-grown stock, some of which have redder traps and leaves and vary slightly in size.
		It is unclear if this was in reference to the plant's ability to trap, or ensnare, insects as the goddess Venus empowered women the ability to ensnare men, or because some people claim the traps resemble certain aspects of female anatomy.
		While Venus fly traps grow best outside in full sun in most of the US (they are frost hardy but requires freeze protection in the north) I decided that I'd grow mine inside under fluorescent lamps so they could be kept at eye-level in a convenient location.
	www.waynesthisandthat.com /venusflytrap.html (5721 words)

	‘Tensile strength’ behind Venus flytrap’s clampdown
		Explaining the mechanism behind the flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), researchers said once trigger hairs are tripped by the prey, the plant bends its rubbery leaves into a convex shape, like a tennis ball or soft contact lens that has been flipped inside-out.
		They found out that the strain within the Venus flytrap leaf, probably created by water pressure, keeps the leaf poised near the point at which it will flip.
		Venus flytraps - found in North and South Carolina and are fast becoming endangered - takes about 5 to 12 days to digest its prey by dissolving the insect’s soft inner parts.
	www.earthtimes.org /articles/show/1387.html (422 words)

	The Mysterious Venus' Flytrap
		The leaves of Venus' Flytrap open wide and on them are short, stiff hairs called trigger or sensitive hairs.
		The Venus Flytrap is one of the easiest carnivorous plants to grow.
		In order to provide high humidity for your Venus Flytrap, plant it in a terrarium or in a glass container with a small opening.
	www.botany.org /bsa/misc/carn.html (1248 words)

	South Carolina Native Plant Society - Rare Venus Flytrap Plants Stolen from Wildlife Preserve
		Theft or destruction of the Venus flytrap on Heritage Trust property is a violation of DNR regulations, according to Horry County Natural Resources Enforcement Officer, Sgt. Stan Woodle.
		Nursery or greenhouse raised Venus flytraps are legally sold at roadside produce and garden stands and some home improvement stores.
		Before purchasing a Venus flytrap from your local vendor, Dozier encourages the consumer to verify the plants origin to ensure that it’s a greenhouse-raised plant and was not illegally collected in the wild.
	www.scnps.org /articles/theft.html (396 words)

	SB - Meet the Venus Flytrap - The Insiders' Guide® to Wilmington & North Carolina's Southern Coast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Well, maybe that’s a bit alarmist — while North Carolina’s carnivorous plant, the Venus Flytrap, does eat insects, it hasn’t actually eaten any children or their mothers yet, but rumor has it that one did nibble on the nose of a curious kid who got too close.
		OK, maybe we made that up, but the Venus Flytrap is real, although there aren’t many of them around, which is why you could be fined from $100 to $500 for removing one from state-owned or private lands without permission.
		To be exact, the Venus Flytrap’s leaves change from their open, concave shape to their closed, convex, clamshell-like state in 100 milliseconds.
	www.insiders.com /wilmington/sb-attractions4.htm (938 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Flytrap
		The Venus flytraps are marked in the wild...
		The blink-of-an-eye closing of a Venus flytrap's leaf on a hapless fly is one of the fastest movements in the plant kingdom...
		Im just glad that what helped me was not the Venus flytrap therapy or the fetal sheep-cell injections or the building a steel cage around my bed to prevent electromagnetic poisoningand these things all I did.
	news.surfwax.com /gardening/files/Flytrap_Flowers.html (1662 words)

	Harvard scientists discover how the venus flytrap snaps
		Their study, published in the Jan. 27 issue of the journal Nature, investigates the series of events that occur from the time the plant's leaves are stimulated to the time the trap is clamped shut.
		To reveal how the Venus flytrap snaps, the researchers painted ultraviolet fluorescent dots on the external face of the leaves and filmed them under ultraviolet light using high-speed video.
		Prior explanations of Venus flytrap operation have cited a loosening of cell walls combined with a quick loss of cellular pressure, but it had not been clear how these cellular mechanisms alone could produce the lightning-fast closure of the entire leaf.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-01/hu-hsd012505.php (725 words)

	The Venus Flytrap
		I have some Flytraps which are growing what appears to be their fall leaves, but, strangely, are not showing signs of dormancy at all (This could also be that these plants were put into dormancy during another stage of their growing cycle).
		The Venus Flytraps that exist today might be near the last specie to have evolved or it could be around the middle in its history of evolution or, indeed, it could be the last one to have done so.
		It is not to say that the Venus Flytrap could not, through mutations, find a way to correct all of these problems and grow gigantic in size, but it is the amount of chances against something like this happening which probably has kept the plant small.
	www.strato.net /~crvny/sa03005.html (5543 words)

	Venus flytrap - Dionaea muscipula, BSA's Carnivorous plants pages
		Experiments on the Venus flytrap by Roberts and Oosting (1958) suggest that perhaps it is the organic form of nitrogen and phosphorus that is important to the insectivorous plants.
		However, your Venus' Flytrap will experience a dormant period in the winter, from Thanksgiving to Valentine's Day so it needs fewer hours of daylight and cooler temperatures.
		Hodick, D. and Sievers, A. On the mechanism of trap closure of Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula Ellis).
	www.botany.org /Carnivorous_Plants/venus_flytrap.php (1807 words)

	Carnivorous plants, venus flytrap, terrariums, pitcher plant, dionaea muscipula, sundew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Venus Flytraps are native to coastal regions of North and South Carolina.
		Venus Flytraps are monotypical, meaning that it is the only species of it's genus.
		As Venus Flytraps grow, they will push new leaves up from the center of the plant.
	www.carnivorousplantsonline.com /index.pmg/page-builder/pageid-11 (1639 words)

	Venus Flytrap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Awe inspiring when first seen in action, the Venus flytrap is without doubt the most famous of all carnivorous plants.
		Venus flytraps are native only to the coastal plain of southeastern North Carolina and extreme northeastern South Carolina.
		Flytraps thrive in a mix of one part sand to one part peat.
	www.californiacarnivores.com /venus_flytraps.shtml (180 words)

	Venus Flytrap Expert Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Venus flytraps are "primary producers" of energy just like other plants - that is, they're green plants that turn the sun's energy into food energy through photosynthesis, so that puts them at the bottom of the chain.
		I think we should go for the major source of energy for Venus flytraps, which definitely is the sun, not the animals they trap.
		So keep Venus flytraps on the bottom of the food chain with all the other green plants, even though they have this interesting little carnivorous sideline.
	www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us /wetlands/VenusFlytrap/VFExpert.html (340 words)

	Venus flytrap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of the more dramatic plant movements is the snapping shut of the leaf of a Venus Flytrap when it detects movement on its surface.
		The trap of the Venus Flytrap is a highly modified leaf.
		Carnivorous plants like the Venus Flytrap secrete enzymes that will digest the insect and provide the plant with Nitrogen that it needs for growth.
	plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu /plantmotion/movements/nastic/flytrap/flytrap.html (189 words)

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