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Venus Flytrap, a plant that can eat insects.
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Bobo.id – Friends, have you ever heard of a plant that can eat animals?
Introducing, here it is Venus Flytraps, a plant that can eat insects.
Venus Flytraps or in scientific language called Dionaea muscipula, is a plant that can prey on insects.
This plant can grow to a diameter of up to 13 centimeters.
At the edges of the leaves, there is a tooth -shaped layer, and the leaves are shaped like shells that can open and close.
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Venus Flytraps comes from North Carolina and South Carolina.
This plant lives by requiring high humidity and lots of it sunlight.
Not only unique because of its shape and ability, it turns out Venus Flytraps can be kept as an ornamental plant, lo.
How to take care of it, huh? Reported from The Spruce, this is how to care for plants Venus Flytraps.
Maintenance Venus Flytraps
Plant Venus Flytraps It was first discovered in a swamp environment, so it must be properly cared for.
Venus Flytraps instead requires acidic soil, which contains peat soil and is located between mosses.
Because it grows in a moist soil environment, Venus Flytraps no need to fertilize.
In addition, you can give Venus Flytraps food on purpose.
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For example, giving small insects whose size corresponds to the diameter of the leaf.
Insects given can be flies or mosquitoes.
Using tweezers, the insect is inserted into the ‘mouth’ of the leaf, until it touches the hairs of the leaf.
After that, the insects will be devoured and digested by Venus Flytraps in a unique way.
Every now and then this plant can look wilted and dead, but the roots Venus Flytraps actually still alive.
This condition usually occurs in autumn, and there is a lack of sunlight.
In this state, we must let Venus Flytraps keep it alive by ensuring sunlight is received and reducing watering.
Although it can eat insects, Venus Flytraps also prone to small pests such as aphids.
So, we need to pay close attention to its maintenance.
Method Venus Flytraps Catching Insects
The most interesting thing about this plant is that it can prey on insects with its own ability.
Leaf Venus Flytraps It will give off a nectar scent that insects like.
When the insect approaches and lands on the ‘mouth’ of the leaf, the insect is not eaten immediately.
Sensory hairs on leaves Venus Flytraps called trichomes, which are on the inside of the petals will do the action.
This trichome serves to calculate and estimate the movement of insects.
Well, those are some facts and plant care Venus Flytraps. Are you interested in trying it?
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