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Venus flytrap
Do carnivorous plants actually eat their prey?
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Venus's-flytrap. Venus's-flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) one of the best known of the meat-eating plants. Carnivorous plant, Venus flytrap, Venus fly trap
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Do carnivorous plants actually eat their prey?
Sometimes plants bite back.
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Venus flytrap
A fly being trapped in a Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula).
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Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula).
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Venus's-flytrap (Dionaea muscipula).
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The sensitive traps of the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) capture and...
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Close-up of the carnivorous traps of the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula).
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