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	Venus Flytrap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant that catches its prey (insects and arachnids, mostly flies and spiders) by snapping its leaves closed, much like animals do with their mouths.
		The Venus flytrap is found in nitrogen-poor bogs in the southeastern United States, mainly within a 100-mile radius of Wilmington, North Carolina.
		The Venus flytrap is one of a small group of plants that are capable of rapid movement, such as Mimosa and the Telegraph plant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Venus_fly_trap (1175 words)

	Carnivorous Plants Online
		When a venus fly trap is entering its dormant period, all the tall big growth will die back to a few small leaves or back to just its bulb and root system.
		Venus fly traps are rather easy to grow if their conditions are met.
		If you are growing your venus fly trap in an area where it does not get anything to eat, such as a terrarium, you can give it one or two flies or small pet store or wild caught crickets every month.
	home.paonline.com /mrmiller/Specific.HTM (2686 words)

	Care, cultivation and growing requirements of Venus Flytrap plants, Dionaea muscipula
		When an insect lands on the head of the fly trap, they seek the source of the nectar, and if the plant is lucky, it will touch one of the many trigger hairs located within the jaws of the trap.
		Venus Fly Traps are quite easy to grow, as long as they are given the proper conditions.
		Fly Traps do not need fertilizer, the insects which they consume provide them with all the nutrients they need.
	www.thegardenhelper.com /flytrap.html (590 words)

	Venus Fly Trap ( Dionaea)
		The plant commonly called Venus Fly Trap from the rapidly and force of its movements is one of the most wonderful in the world.
		The Venus Fly Trap (Dionea Muscipula) is one of a kind, unlike all other plants known to botany.
		Venus Fly Traps are fairly easy to grow once their few particular requirements have been understood, bearing in mind that they grow naturally in permanent wet bog lands in the mild parts of the South Coast (USA).
	www.hungryplants.com /id15.htm (1055 words)

	Venus Flytrap's Speed Secret Revealed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.
		Once an insect is captured, the plant closes its trap tightly around the meal and bathes it in digestive juices that dissolve the insect’s soft, inner parts.
		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 (552 words)

	Venus' Fly-Trap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Venus' Fly-Trap, a most peculiar plant allied to the sundew.
		Each leaf is narrowed to a neck near its end, the portion beyond which is widened into a sensitive, book-shaped extremity, an inch in width, surrounded by a fringe of sticky bristles and covered with a mucilage of the plant's own manufacture.
		When an insect lights on this surface, the leaf is irritated and the end closes up, book-fashion, like a trap and imprisons the insect.
	www.factopia.com /aiton-encyclopedia-vol5/venus-fly-trap.htm (137 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)

	Venus Fly Trap - Review - A little green monster in the house!
		As a insect, such as fly, lands on the plants leaves and touches the adaxial receptors, a chemical reaction occurs in the plant.
		The fly is then locked in the leaf, and can't move because of the dewy substance lining the inside.
		Venus Fly Traps grow naturally in humid, wet, sunny and warm conditions and this is ideally what they need.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /plants/venus-fly-trap/292645 (787 words)

	Giraffe; Venus Fly Trap
		The Venus Fly Trap is a rather small plant, generally only growing four or five inches tall.
		The outside of the trap is lined with long pike-like extensions that form a nice barred cage long before the trap has completely closed.
		The Venus Fly Trap is also an example of how hard it is to imagine a method of evolution by accidents happening over thousands and thousands of years.
	www.gospelgazette.com /gazette/2001/mar/page5.htm (1084 words)

	Venus Fly Trap - the fascinating hungry plant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Venus Fly trap Photos shown are examples of plants.
		Third year Venus Flytrap plants will get to be a couple inches tall, and some more robust plants may even flower.
		Year 7-8, beyond: Venus flytraps will live as long as they are kept in proper conditions.
	www.the-venus-flytrap.com /venus-flytrap.html (375 words)

	Easy Carnivorous Plants - UK and EU - Dionaea - The Venus Fly Trap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Once a fly is feeding it's a nail-biting wait to see if the unfortunate creature will touch on of the three trigger hairs on each side of the trap.
		This springs the trap from a convex to a concave shape with interlocking spines forming a cage.
		When the trap re-opens anything from days to a few weeks later, all that is left is the husk of the prey.
	www.easycarnivores.co.uk /shop/customer/home.php?cat=251 (659 words)

	Venus‘ fly trap Venus-Fliegenfalle
		Fertilization is performed by the plant itself, that is by digesting trapped insects.
		After a single plant has carried out 4 to 5 digestions, the trap turns fl in colour and can be cut off.
		Caution: It is very harmful to the plant to let the traps snap shut on purpose, that is by touching it etc..
	www.tropica-zaden.com /p14.html (256 words)

	Fly Catcher No flies on this...
		The fly catcher is an electronic fly-swatting device based on the idea of the Venus fly trap.
		As the insect crawls into the mouth of the trap, two sensors detect the insect causing the mouth to shut, swatting the insect dead.
		The fly catcher is a frivolous, yet somewhat practical solution to one of the main summer irritations...Flies can carry diseases and land on rubbish etc...so get your self a fly catcher and zap those flies before they land on your food!
	www.paramountzone.com /fcatcher.htm (298 words)

	Carnivorous Plants
		For some of these traps the actual method of insect decomposition involves digestive enzymes produced by the plant and bacterial decay within the trap.
		A classic passive trap is the "pitfall trap" of pitcher plants, including Darlingtonia and Sarracenia of the Sarraceniaceae, and Nepenthes of the Nepenthaceae, where an insect falls into a vase-like modified leaf.
		Probably the best known active trap is the Venus' flytrap (Dionaea muscipula, Droseraceae), one of the most astonishing plants in the world.
	waynesword.palomar.edu /carnivor.htm (2717 words)

	The Venus' Fly-trap
		The legendary Venus' Fly-trap, the plant that gets most growers interested in CPs in the first place, and the one most frequently sold (and killed!) by garden centres.
		I started to get good results after I realised that the VFT benefits from a drier dormancy period in winter.
		In winter, try to keep the plant somewhere slightly cooler (the occasional light frost can be tolerated) and let the water in the tray/saucer/whatever dry out between waterings.
	members.aol.com /stevedalton/myhomepage/dionaea.html (259 words)

	Dionaea muscipula (Venus Fly Trap) for sale! Carnivorous plants micropropagation laboratory.
		In nature, trap closure is affected by touching the trigger hairs on the inside of the trap.
		These trigger hairs are covered by the trap, protecting the trap from spontaneous triggering by rain.
		You can rest assured that you will not obtain a slow growing clone of the Venus Fly Trap, as are often supplied by laboratories not specialized in the cultivation of this species.
	bestcarnivorousplants.com /dionaea (1146 words)

	venus fly trap mutations and varieties
		There are many varieties and mutations in the venus fly trap world.
		Note: this is one of a number of similar varieties with large traps on a compact plant.
		I have designated as mutations any venus fly traps in which the trap shape is in some way mutated, as in not having a normal shape.
	dionea.homestead.com /mutate.html (554 words)

	Venus' Fly Trap, Venus Flytrap, Venus's Flytrap growing
		Insects are trapped and digested by the plant to obtain nutrients; they are carnivorous plants.
		Traps with prey remain closed for a week or two.
		There is evidence that Venus' Fly Traps grow better if they are repotted in fresh peat/peat mix every year or two.
	www.pitcherplant.com /care_sheets/flytrap_care.html (932 words)

	venus fly trap question. - GardenGuides Forums
		also my friends dad had a venus fly trap when he was a kid and he fed it little pieces of hamburger and he said it did well.
		VFT`s usually need a moving food source to stimulate its digestive juices...
		Flies can be caught live with sticky paper, and feeding the VFT with these the best way to feed them..
	www.gardenguides.com /forum/showthread.php?p=315263#post315263 (713 words)

	Venus Fly Trap (Cultivation Instructions) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Venus Flytraps are low growing, rosetted, perennials that grow in sandy, moist wetland areas.
		Venus Flytraps usually are sold in 7.5 cm pots.
		Each of the traps on a Venus Flytrap have a limited life span.
	www.hungryplants.com /id4.htm (1437 words)

	Venus flytrap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.
		As seen in this real-time video, other parts of the leaf fail to elicit a response but when the hair cells are touched 2 times in succession, the leaf slams shut on the chance that a living insect might be caught.
	sunflower.bio.indiana.edu /~rhangart/plantmotion/movements/nastic/flytrap/flytrap.html (189 words)

	Venus Fly Trap - Plants Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		When I was a kid, I had a venus fly trap plant but did not upkeep it correctly because of not really thinking that the venus fly trap needs extra attention than compared to other plants that I have raised.
		Venus Fly Trap : A little green monster in the house!
		The Venus fly-trap (Dionea Muscipula) is definitely the most well know carnivorous plant that is commercially available in today’s world.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /plants/venus-fly-trap (382 words)

	Fly Catcher - Electronic Venus Fly Trap
		The bait attracts the fly, which crosses two sensors as it walks down the surface of the jaws.
		The fly catcher is a frivolous, yet somewhat practical solution to one of the main summer irritations.
		Flies can carry certain diseases and land on rubbish etc so get your self a fly catcher and swat those flies before they land on your food!
	www.eurocosm.com /Application/Products/Flyc/flyc1GB.asp (313 words)

	ABC Online Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The trap is the actual true leaf, and sits at the end of the petriole.
		The trap will close in less than a second, in ideal conditions, and if an insect is caught, the trap will seal shut and start secreting digestive juices.
		It may take a week to digest a housefly, and when the trap reopens, the shriveled shell of the insect is left behind.
	www2b.abc.net.au /science/scribblygum-old/posts/topic15311.shtm (679 words)

	VENUS FLY TRAP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		We've all heard of the Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea muscipula), but to many of us, it seems a bit mysterious.
		The Venus Fly Trap has mystified scientists and botanists worldwide.
		A terrarium is ideal, but then it becomes like having a pet: you will occasionally have to provide the food for the Venus Fly Trap, but it provides some cheap entertainment.
	aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu /county/smith/tips/house/venusFlyTrap.html (204 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 time it takes for the trap to reopen depends on the size of the insect, temperature, the age of the trap, and the number of times it has gone through this process.
		The Venus Flytrap is one of the easiest carnivorous plants to grow.
	www.botany.org /bsa/misc/carn.html (1287 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.
		The trapped insect is then slowly dissolved by acids and digested by the plant.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/plants/flowers/Flytrap.shtml (326 words)

	Venus' Flytrap, Venus Flytrap, Venus's Flytrap, or Dionaea muscipula
		Venus' Flytrap, Venus Flytrap, Venus's Flytrap, or Dionaea muscipula
		"Venus Fly Trap" is not really correct as it is not possessive and incorrectly implies (grammatically) that the plant is from Venus.
		The Venus' Fly Trap has fascinated people throughout history, including Thomas Jefferson, who corresponded with Timothy Bloodworth in order to obtain seeds of this most unusual plant.
	www.pitcherplant.com /flytrap.html (189 words)

	Venus Fly-Trap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Venus Fly-Trap Plant (Dionaea Muscipula) is a species of carnivorous plants containing a powerful immune modulator named "naphthoquinone plumbagin." Published scientific research indicates that plumbagins in low doses are potent stimulators of macrophage activity
		Our Venus Fly Trap herbal extract is made from fresh organically-grown Dionaea Muscipula plants in a base of grain alcohol and filtered water.
		Note on sublingual use: Recent experience has shown that absorbing Venus Fly-trap extract under the tongue is at least 3 times more effective than mixing it with water and drinking it.
	www.ojibwatea.com /info/venus_fly.htm (368 words)

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