Plants Behaving Badly

The Venus Flytrap

Carnivorous plants have evolved ways of trapping insects. Snap traps work along the lines of an old-fashioned mousetrap. Scientists have finally worked out how the Venus flytrap can close its trap so quickly.

The Venus Flytrap

2m 39s

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