Venus flytraps rarely catch flies, despite their name - instead, spiders and ants make up most of their diet. When a victim walk by and brushes against a trigger hair on the inside of the trap’s modified leaves, it sets off an electrical signal. If the bug doesn’t escape within 20 to 30 seconds, the trap slams shut faster than you can blink!
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What's Inside A Venus Flytrap?
“About 4 times faster than you can blink!” *Blinks while it’s closing and it’s still closing*
yea its like 0 times faster
It reacts fast, but the closing is not that fast. Still amazing though.
@@tomeaston2962 they dont get the gist
Modern problem requires modern solutions
@@tomeaston2962 What's the point of reacting fast if you cannot move just as fast? Oh boy, a stone is gonna hit me, better move my arm up in like 5 minutes
"closes 4x faster than you can blink" Plant: *speed of someone politely closing a door*
its the reaction time thats fast
@@ImXypersure I just don't aee what's so noteworthy about that when the actual execution time is pretty anticlimactic
Lmao
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@@spilega4603 huh
"Faster than you can blink." I feel so sorry for your eyes.
Lmao
Did you blink on purpose too? 😊😆
@@reirei7851 true, that realy makes a big difference
well we can only observe the last moments where it moves a whole lot slower
Lol
This makes me want to plant a few hundred carnivorous plants around my house. Never finding bugs inside my home sounds like a dream.
I’d be like a giant bug trap that attracts bugs, but worst case scenario they don’t eat them all and your house becomes a bug attraction.
In ancient Egypt, you were considered blessed and/or favored by multiple gods and goddesses if you had lizards in your house. They ate all the mosquitos carrying diseases and virii, keeping the food and residents healthy and water supplies free of egg clutches. If you have lizards, you're a third of the way there. Flytrap flora help a lot. As well as non-venomous carnivorous spiders that nest in webs in corners of ceilings. Live in harmony with these things and you'll be happy.
Good luck with that dream there were always be bugs in your house
@@tracygardner6318 That's okay. I don't mind the cute ones, like pill bugs. Even spiders I try to save and release outside if I know they're not a harmful kind (and they're not large.)
They need something like 6 hours of sunlight a day
Too bad these don't attract mosquitoes otherwise I'd turn my room into a forest
Silver lmao
I hope they breed one
Word
Jocky - Brawl Star well ur gonna need a flytrap that uses carbon dioxide and heat as it’s bait
My vft caught a mosquito!
“The Carolinas have one vicious vegetable.” *Zooms onto Georgia*
The Cameraman Scared when he hear that sentence
Exactly 😑😂
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Muricans
I literally went straight to the comments to see who else caught that
Edgar Allen Poe: The most terrifying way to die is being buried alive Spider caught in a Venus Flytrap: Dude, tell me about it...
Mrbeast laughs
@@Nazu_Kondo haha thats cute
I saw this exact same comment on another video from another person, ROBOT!
@@skinz1277 beep boop
Poe did say anything about the coffin you're in digesting you though.
"Digestive Juices" "Nutrient rich slushy" stands out the most for me.
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@@spilega4603 think ya got the wrong person.
😂😂😂😂👌👌
...
The maid love it
Me: Teacher, my venus ate my homework
How
well, that’s a excuse-
Teacher: u cant shoot ur homework to venus BIG F
@@lotychannel6126 ah yes, I too hate it when a mc. frickin planet eats my paper
Bright side for me thanks mate
*Small Animals:* _* wanders into the trap *_ *Venus Flytrap:* _Say sike right now_
Sike
WRONG!
that’s not how you use the meme
thats wrong but go off 👋🏽💀💀
@MOTH Your comment gave me a loss of brain cells
“Only leaving the exoskeleton.” Wow they really wanna see the scooping room
@@mia7488 yeah
Ennard: The scooper only hurts for a moment... BOOP BOOP BOOP BOOP......... Scooper: CROOOOOOOCH!!!!
Yummy human ice cream
Lol
We do love fnaf references
"Im tired of drinking water THATS ALL WE DO is drink water! I wanna EAT I want FOOOD MEEAAAT!!!"~Venus flytrap
Nice calebcity reference
🍖🍖😋
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Ah a man of culture
Yeah meat 🍖🍖🥩🥩🤤
i just got my fly trap yesterday and i love her. shes a queen and she caught her first bug today. a proud mum
tell her i love her
tell her i love her too
tell her I love her
Tell the queen I love her
Tell ur flytrap i love her
"4 times faster then you can blink" **Shows the slowest venus trap**
They just aren't very fast at all
I assumed it was slowed down footage so you could see it?
He isn't talking about the closing speed. He is talking about the speed of plant's response
@@sak4933 its a jk
They're more than 4 times slower
How would vegans react when they find out that plants eat meat?
How should they react? lol
I mean, it is what it is. Doesn't phase me. It's just part of the natural order
@@jackielantern7056 Know what else is part of natural order? Humans eating meat.
@@therealsamuel21 yep
@@therealsamuel21 that is correct. Not every vegan takes on this diet/lifestyle because they believe humans shouldn't eat meat.
KZhead randomly started suggesting me videos of bugs being eaten by venus flytraps, so obviously this was the next in line.
Apperantly it wants to turn you into a nature boy/girl
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Lol same
happened with me
Dude same
I better sleep early today... 3AM: What's Inside A Venus Flytrap?
6 AM for me
Tru
100 like
I literally pressed play at 3 am exactly oof
Lmao it's 3:26 am for me lol
"only 5 percent of their diet is flies.." Are the rest of their diet supposed to be people who are desperate to end their fingers life?
Acceled no it’s food
I can tell by both of your usernames that you are probably either a preteen / teen trying to get that high of dopamine from "r/wooshing" someone, that you failed to realize how much you missed the joke that you were saying i missed. Should that not be the case, I recommend the subreddit "r/technicallythetruth" and reconsider your options.
Datderp there are only 2 or 4 Os in woosh/woooosh
Or chopped up dentist.
standingcatakula wowww the comeback sisss
Damn, Nature is cool af.
fr though covid is a blessing in disguise i aint seen a bug for about like 4 months
Not if you're a bug. -ThatRandomCat
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@@spilega4603 Please dont make me lock your paypal.
@@ok.5985 yeah that’s what I’m sayin
“The Carolinas..” Shows Georgia
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No u
Been *OBSESSED* with carnivorous plants since I was a kid in NC where my elementary school had a nature trail with Venus fly traps and pitcher plants. Just thought it was the coolest thing.
same, I remember my family used to bought me nepenthes every 2-3 months when I was a kid...
Dude same I want a venus so BAD
Did the air at the trail smell really nice, due to the carnivorous plants?
Same, when I was 9 I saw Nepenthes for the first time and I fell in love, I've grown neps and other carnivorous plants since,
It’s all fun and games until that one dumbass kid puts his finger in it.
They are 4x faster than a blink of an eye Me: *blinks* Me still seeing it close 🤨🤨🤔🤔
hahahahaah funny i laughed!!1!!
Usually if they are healthy they can close extremely fast, that one was just a bad example.
@@eggrollsoup thats so amazing
@@noname-mr4xu most people take care of it like a regular plant or do too much for it or treat it like some sort of exotic tropical plant. if you do, you will kill it. it’s actually super easy to take care of. If you know some basic rules.
@@noname-mr4xu if they are healthy they will become really colorful and even make nice flowers for you
I saw these in a botanical garden I went to with a friend. The thing that surprised me the most is that they're actually really small. I've only ever seen closeup shots of them, and whenever they're portrayed in fiction they're shown to be HUGE, so I always thought they'd have to be at least the size of my hand. But no, one flytrap is smaller than my pinkie finger.
I've always been very curious to know what's inside a flytrap.
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@@spilega4603???
I need some of those plants around my house because there's to many bugs.
Ooooh thats an idea!! I just killed a spider in the kitchen, could do with growing these plants
I have some in my room. Since I have a lot of flies and spiders. I named it fli (It’s like fly but with an i...and- ah you get it)
Just eat them yourself there instant venus flytrap
General Dakota your gross. ( I know your just joking lol)🤣
Yea but it wouldn’t work to well because it takes around a week to eat 1bug so idk how well that would work, good idea tho
“In 100 mileseconds, about 4x faster than you can blink” I don’t think it takes 0.4 seconds to blink.
Dumbass it takes 1000 milliseconds to make 1 second.
@@charlesreyes2012 actually no
@@1ronWinged yes it does lol. Literally search up 1000 milliseconds to seconds
@@1ronWinged deci= 10^-1 Centi= 10^-2 Milli= 10^-3 Micro= 10^-6 Nano= 10^-9 Pico= 10^-12 😼
@@poopsickle2411 ok sugar lover witha zaytoon said she had to YOU MAY KISS *THE BRIDE*
Admiral Spiderbar: “It’s a trap”
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@@spilega4603 lol
2:37 “to form an air tight seal” - Phil swift from flex tape
@The Monster Under Your Bed shut up it works great
Me: **types creeper** The whole Discord server: 0:54
Lmao
Lmao
Lmao
So we back in the mine (ok i will stop.)
got our pickaxes swinging from side to side side side to side (stopped whose next(
3:41 "Well, I'll just accept my fate. YOLO"
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@@spilega4603 irony at its best
These are by far the coolest carnivorous plants you can get always fun to observe. I live in the uk and often collect round leaf sundews which are native here and they also have a very interesting way of trapping but the sudden close of the Venus makes it by far the best
Rundblättriegen sonnentau habe ich gestern noch gesehen 😊😊
0:10 "The Carolina's" while zooming in mostly on Georgia.
Fly:*wanders in the trap* Venus flytrap:So you have chosen death
@@jellobean3470 comedy
Old and lame comedy. Such overhyped.
Jasperzac195 I like it dumbass
Not gonna disturb 'em 69 likes
Haha so funny I forgot to laugh
I didn’t know I wanted to know this.....THANKS KZhead algorithm lol
I’m looking at this before I watched the video and *now I’m feeling like I should just quit now before it’s too late*
😂😂😂
Same here
Hahaha. I just bought one. They look fun.
I looked this up like I have a Venus fly trap
So that's why they take a while to chew up the zombies in plants vs. zombies. Because they literally need 1 week to digest their meals in real life
exactly
When we think of plants, very few of us really think of these types of plants. They are fascinating, as they produce and prepare everything to catch their prey. This very good video!
"Venus fly traps rarely eat fly's" *Continue's to show videos where the VFT only eats fly's*
i find they catch hoverflies, horseflies and wasps as well as spiders
Being a 5% certainty, it rolled a natural 20.
But can you explain how the hell this plant got in to smash while waluigi didn't?
I know right? It's bullshit that waluigi isn't a playable character.
@@jsm2p12 Piranha plant is more important to the Mario franchise, also many idiots tried to force Sakurai to put Waluigi...
Joker stole it
@@Hawlucha77 how is a one particular mario enemy really important? Explain
@@greedpower565 The Piranha Plants have appeared in almost every Mario game, is weird to not see them, their presence in the Mario games have inspired some bosses even in other franchises, that and in every smash game there is a joke character, Jigglypuff, Game and Watch, etc. Piranha Plant this time
Venus flytrap: eats a bug Chomper: eats a zombie
“The trap sucks up that nutrient rich slushy” lol I love David Anderson’s silly puns. He’s great on all the Insider videos.
Bugs: oooohhh looks like a plant that I can land safely Venus flytrap: hippty hoppty your now my property
Kal0 Oof-finity *like your gacha life videos*
0:54 So we back in the mine, got our pickaxe swinging from side to side, side side to side
Lol
I want to create a pond, never take care of it, get insects to infest it. Then surround it with venus fly traps. My perfect plan
The profile pic tho.......
This video was put together and edited so well. I very much enjoyed this video and learned exactly what I needed to. Grateful that you posted and created such a masterpiece.
“mostly eats spiders” turns my house into a venus fly trap forest
Yea but it actually spits out the spider exoskeleton after, you gonna pick that up? xD
Almost everyone at one point in their life thought plants were boring until they came across a *venus fly trap*
I am so intrigued by how these plants work… like they are CARNIVOROUS… but they’re PLANTS… that’s so cool like what
I watched this while playing predaplants and it just made the cards more exiting. Great video!
Bugs: "It's a free real estate !" Venus flytrap: "It's a free live meal !"
0:46 "...and and and an ants."
this video is sick! i always wondered how Venus Flytraps worked. you taught me a lot today and thats why i subscribed (have a good day)
I've always wondered this. This was very helpful 👍
"North Carolina is not a fun place to be a bug" Me, who lives in NC with butterflies as their absolute favorite: *Sweats*
Fly: ZzZz *flies on a flytrap Flytrap: Im gonna eat this whole man's career >:)
Earl Samson you mean life because flies don’t have careers
Thanos left butt cheek Thanos right butt cheek it’s a joke man,just a funny meme
cring
Welp... Fly: *OoH a NoN-sUsPiCiOuS tHiNg ThAt MaY NoT kIll Me* Flytrap: ...
Earl Samson meme is as stale as that dusty box of week old donuts at the corner store.
It is wonderful to see the behavior of the Venus flytraps, they are great.
3:48 *Gotta remember that*
The Venus Flytrap’s airtight seal is nothing compared to flex tape’s! *thats a lot of damage*
How much time you need to eat one bug Venus fly trap:yes
I love learning about carnivorous plants. The Venus Flytrap and the Pitcher Plant are my favorites
Thank you very much for your videos, they are very enriching, I watch them with my children and we learn a lot
1:45 How is that 4 times the blink of an eye. That was really slow. A slug could’ve escaped before it closed
@Carnivorous Plant Channel they all basically close that slow.
“Venus flytraps don’t usually eat flies.” That kids, is the definition of blasphemy
Title of the video starts at 2:28
In HS I had a venus fly trap, sundew plant, and pitcher plant. Coolest things I've ever grown! Need to get back into it.
“Plants are at the bottom of the food chain” Audrey II: ahem
Feed me Seymour! Feed me!
My mom had gotten my sister and myself a venus fly trap when we were little. We used to feed it little bits of raw hamburger meat. Such a cool plant, we would get so excited when it would open back up wanting more food. The huge ones that live in the rainforest and can eat whole birds or small rodents are so cool and beautiful looking.
This is the first video explaing how it actually creates an airtight seal around its "lips". Thanks for the explanation
I love learning about nature, I find carnivorous plants, reptiles and insects so fascinating
Oh, yes. My favorite plant.
@Carnivorous Plant Channel Anything that'll give rid of insects that aren't suppose to be in my house is good to me.
"Feed Me,Seymour"!!!! 😂😂😂
I remember my mom had one of these and she thought she didn’t have to feed it so it died
excellent information, without a doubt I have learned a lot about this subject I have loved it
*bug:* walks into a venus flytrap *venus flytrap:* *closes* *bug:* say sike right now
^
Flame I didnt?
Venus flytrap: uno reverse
0:28 Flies ?? I thought they were for catching zombies .
or Dentists?
i understood that reference
*grasswalk intensifies*
LMFAOOOOOOO!!!!
Give this man an oscar
Nature is incredible
Vídeo muito explicativo gostei bastante!
Imagine being the first person to discover this thing like “does that plant have teeth? DID IT JUST EAT THAT SPIDER?!”
I think we should create giant ones through genetic engineering.
Fly: aw man Me: *minecraft flashbacks*
I used to have one of these. They’re amazing
bugs see Venus fly trap: it’s free real estate
0:53 that "Aww man" got me.
woah.. thanks for these information!!
Wow, makes you realize just how underrated this plant truly is. :0
RIP the fly in this video
F
F the fly! I had several fly into my hair and face today. They can eat shit and go to hell.
@@TheManicabana they do eats shit.
it said aw man
CREEPER
0:54 Flies: Aww man. *Revenge song starts to play*
I have heard about Venus Flytraps but do not know much about it. Luckily I found this post. The reviews in this post are very detailed and helpful, helping me gain more knowledge about Venus Flytraps. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you this was the exact right amount of information
The flytrap is the real life inspiration for the Piranha plants in the Super Mario games.
0:53 Me: *creeper!* The fly: *aw man!*
Ew revenge
Excellent very entertaining and educational content about the Venus flytrap successes
Great Job on the video . Interesting and easy to understand
How in the hell did this plant evolve to do this? And about how long did it take?🤔🤔🤔
HL Watts 3:26
It didn't.
@@meepcity48 That tells us "Why" they evolved to eat bug. I'm asking "How" did the plant develop the mechanism to do it?
@@hlwatts9979 These all depend on random chance created by their genetic diversity, higher diverse you are more chance you can get in evolution. In sort, it is all bc of coincidence. It is not how the plants want to develop, it is because there were high biodiversity and intense competition during ancient time. Plants as well as animals, try their best to survive, due to mutation and selection, some mechanisms/characteristics were kept till now but the other just die out. Ex. A group of plants lived in the place at 3:27 , they might all develop their own features(we don't know bc they all die out now). One day one of them can absorb nutrient from leaves! Then this new specie grew stronger, its population colonized rapidly, no one can compete with it. Then the place were covered with this plant...until one day, one of them can catch insect with leaves! Then not only the new plant can absorb nutrition randomly from its leaves also can catch its own prey, the higher efficiency of getting nutrition makes it become new conqueror of these area.......ect. Similar procedure carry on for a loooooooooooooooooooooooong time till today the flytrap we see. This is all bc of coincidence of mutation, selection. Otherwise, there might had be more strange weird plants or creatures than flytrap if they had not be replaced by other species(the ancestry of flytrap).
@@hlwatts9979 Evolution is a dumb theory. Everything was created by a Creator. Anyone with half a brain could figure it out.
When I get into an argument with a Vegan, i always remind them that even the Venus Flytrap and various plants are carnivorous. They usually storm off in a hissy fit.
I would also point out the fact that certain types of corn will release a chemical to avoid being eaten by insects.
Im a vegan and have carnivorous plants. No big deal 😂
This happened.
r/thathappened
@@spookykidbunny haah keeanu reeves wholsome 100
Thx for upload
for all the people saying the plant closes very slowly, we see slowed-down footage so you can actually see what is happening
I have a Venus flytrap, it’s pretty cool
Kill it
Does it have a brain ?
0:54 *_CREEPER_*
Steve RUNNN
Lel
AWWW MAN
@@localalleywaycatdealer7628 no
@@thechubster3423 yes
Carnivorous plants are easily one of the most interesting things ever.
Ok I love how they say it’s fast then you can blink then show it on the video and clearly not that fast. We had one I’ve seen it it’s impressive but slow enough bugs evade them a lot