Fly trap at the double!

Double kill

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Even flies get hugs.. where's my hug?

This is why you should always pick a reputable hotel. At least a 3 star.

We told you the breakfast buffet closes at 10:00.

Good job!!

So can someone please ELI5 what happens next?

Unreal Tournament 2004 memory unlocked.

Nom Nom

Scientific American has you covered.

the plant releases some acids and other digestive juices to dissolve the flies and absorb nutrients

it looks like it closes pretty slow, how did the flies not escape?

Slow moving plants aren't a threat, so they don't react, then it's too late and they're trapped, so they struggle which only tightens the traps grip.

I'm pretty sure that red part is sticky, you can see the first fly has a bit of a stutter step.

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This is not true. I clear "husks" out of my flytraps all the time. I grow a bunch here in Wilmington which is where they're from.

No, they're not.

No, it does not.

How the hell can flies evade a sonic slap, but a casually closing trap is deadly,,,,

"Hunt" 🙄

Caught in the horny jail.... bonk

Considering Venus Fly Traps only have an average lifespan of three feeding cycles, this one did well with a two for one special.

He totally fucked it up for that other fly.

Silly flies. You have to wait until it disappears back into the pipe, and then hobble over…

What a horrible way to go

Flies react to fast movement. The Venus Flytrap closes slowly enough (at first) that the fly does not have an “I’m in danger” thought until the fingers are interlaced. By the time it’s aware of danger it is far too late. The red part exudes a slightly sticky bait - it helps lure prey in but also hurts their fast takeoff ability.

If you are very patient and move very slowly, you can also sneak up on a fly.

Damn. I came to say the same..

Isn't it more like trapping (like in the name) than hunting, since the thing is stationary and just waits for prey to come to it, rather than chasing/stalking prey?

This always makes me a little sad….no justifiable reason but it does

Killing spree!

Nutrients?

r/flytrap

I was so happy when my venus fly trap grew some flowers. I've always sucked with plants and even though I'm sure it's not that hard to achieve, I was extremely proud of myself that I not only didn't kill it but also provided conditions good enough for it to bloom.

Nom

The video itself is also slowed down a bit.

Pretty sure there are a couple or a few 'hairs' which have to be tripped within a certain time of each other for the trap to close, so they may have helped each other get caught!

HOLY SHIT!

Fun fact: Venus flytraps aren't actually from Venus.

Dont just their leaves have that? The plant itself survives.

The little “teeth” help close them in, it lets small insects not worth the energy out but bigger ones are trapped

No justifiable reason for their sadness

"Venus fly trap trapping" doesn't garner as much attention.

"Hunting" sounds cool, even if it's wrong. Best part is people will comment just to point out the distinction/"error," that comment is counted as engagement by the reddit Algo - just like up/downvoting - which increases the posts' chance of it showing up in people's feeds and/or on r/all.

Its the same reason titles are purposefully misspelled, use poor grammar, provide false/poorly structured info, or "asks what you think." People will always jump at the chance to correct someone/voice their opinion/tell the same joke 100+ times; basically its the easiest way to have low effort content reach as many users as possible.

To add to that a fly swatter(?) works wonders since it doesn't create wind which would warn the fly of incoming danger.

Which is, in a large part, the point I want to make.

People being deliberatebly dishonest (i.e clickbaiting) is in the best case scenario stretching the truth, but in most cases just straight up lying.

Double play!

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M-M-M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL

The weird thing is this plant can count. It closes on the third detection of something touching it. How does it know it is the third?

Yep! There are 3 hairs on each trap-half. 2 of the 3 hairs on either half must be tripped within 20 seconds to trigger a close.

It’s really a horrible way to die if you think about it, slowly desolving.

gladly insects arent very inteligent, that'd be awful.

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imagine if some enormous plants would eat deer, wolves, or sth else big like that, you could hear cries of the animal slowly dying all night long.

thankfully this isnt a thing in our reality lol

Unfortunately this being one of the heavier traffic/"more popular" subs, best you can do is report the post on grounds of "titles must be descriptive" or block the user that posted.

I suggest the latter given the mods track record with enforcing their own rules; but at least you won't see anything from this poster again.

These flies are dumb. Why would they hang out on something called a fly trap? Pfft stupid bugs.

ILL

^(ILL)

Kilimanjaro

I wondered about that too. Would be weird if the plant dies so fast. Or is a feeding cycle like a few months?

Hands create and air pressure wave that flies can detect long before your hand gets there. That’s why fly swatters have holes

Don’t venus fly traps die after flowering?

There are three hairs inside each trap. It closes when any two are touched.

Each touch triggers a chemical release in the trap. 3 touches within a short release enough chemicals to reach a threshold that causes the trap to close.

TIL

"No no no...wait..."

"It's okay I got it just..."

"NO NO FUUUUUUCKK"

More like on the trap

I have 2. Ones been alive for over 2 years now. The others about a year old. The "mouths" only survive for about 2-3 feeding cycles if that. But they just grow new ones

My boy is eating GOOD tonight!!

Flytraps close in about a third of a second. Too fast for a fly to escape.

Nah not sticky.

Source: have 2

They caught!

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Well, if we don't care about one small issue in language, that will lead to us not caring about one slightly larger issue in language, and so on and so forth, eventually leading to us reverting to to pre-caveman levels of communication (random yelling and throwing things at each other to make a point.)

Don't forget the female announcer having an orgasm when she yells GODLIKE

That’s a horrifying way to die.

Where’s Admiral Ackbar when you need him?

Oh thanks lol

"In his belly you will find a new definition of pain and suffering as you are slowly digested over a thousand years."

And yet I move my hand slowly to ready myself to slap a fly, and they fly away instantly.

Larger pitcher plants can catch mice. The squealing has to be horrible :(

They probably drown in a matter of minutes. Not very different from if a mouse falls into a river.

They probably drown before any meaningful dissolving/burning happens, and most animals drown quietly to my non-biologist understanding. There's not a lot of evolutionary benefit to alerting other mice since they can't/wouldn't help and it's not like an active predator that could chase them down. As far as I know it's mostly limited to humans and domesticated animals that are accustomed to someone coming to their aid and being able to physically pull them out of situations of distress. when an animal thinks it's drowning and it can't expect that help it's not energy efficient to tire itself out quicker by wasting extra breath screaming.

All of their defense responses are geared towards something coming at them from above. The surface they're on moving doesn't tend to trigger their flight response because if it did any time there was the tinniest breeze or movement they'd get off whatever plant they just landed on.

It's also faster than you think it is. This might be slowed down a little bit

Did it look like it closed really slow?

This is the way

Good i hate flies

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Probably sticky at that scale

2 for the price of 1

Nope, they get weaker for some time but they can flower each year.

Slow as hell. When I unleash my light speed grab, to impress my wife, it’s like they weren’t even in the same room.

Probably for the best.
People advocating idiocy don't tend to get very far.

Damn nature you scary!

I’m old enough to know the original sounds but I only think of counter-strike source lol

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The interesting thing is that not even humans tend to be very loud if they're actually drowning, since all their energy and breath goes toward keeping themselves alive, like most animals. I think the loud splashing scene you'd probably expect (like movies like to portray) comes more from a panicking person than someone drowning, which could of course become a drowning hazard from tiring themselves out.

UNSTOPPABLE!

Yep. It's also kind of a known thing that kids especially just kind of drown quietly and suddenly.

I think any noise making is not instinct and a purely learned behavior. Making noise when drowning only makes sense if there's someone like literally right there to help.

The diving reflex is both great and terrifying, depending on the context.

That was the best... at a LAN party, I was the first guy who realized you can change to the female announcer and it threw all of the other teen boys for a loop earing the organic GODLIKE

WOULD IT HELP IF I RAN INTO THE BULLETS?!

WHY YOU SHOOTING THE WALLS, BITCH?!

DOMINATING!

The voice actress really gave it her all that's for sure

Plus the 2-3 little hairs that they have in the mouth (more towards the center) they act like a detectors, if they get touched about 0 to 3 times, the plant thinks its probably some leaf or dirt speck or something nothing alive/good to eat, but if it detects 3 or more touches it starts closing its "mouth", then again when it closes it waits a little bit for movement/resistance to confirm that it caught something alive so no jasmonic acid which it uses for braking down food is wasted

So what happens if you like poke the mouth does it close? And if so does it know to open back up if it caught nothing?

Damn he pushed that other guy in but they both died

This thing hunts like I look for a new job.

Next time a vegan is getting all pious remind them there are plants that eat meat! Let them choke on that a little....

Yes, it'll close, but this is bad for the plant. It takes a lot of energy for them to do this, so if they catch nothing its a problem. Don't try and make them close for no reason.

All I heard is Sid's voice from Toy Story.

Alright! Double prizes!

Ya know, I had to go back and listen again. I had a good chuckle, I didn't remember it being that seductive. Also that holy shit at the end 😆

https://youtu.be/6dWPPgHj8rM

#U L T R A K I L L

Isn’t that kinda what it’s like when animals get stuck in tar pits and things like that, except it takes longer?

Nothing will ever slap like “Killtacular” though

EDIT: like if the copyright is expired on that, COD needs to incorporate. The phrase “killtacular” was a powerful and addictive drug.

So swat with your fingers spread?

They only are found naturally in the wild in about a 60 mile radius around Wilmington, NC.

I've seen some pics of venus flytraps with small lizards trapped in them too. Not as noisy, but still more sentient than a bug.

One more for a UAV.

A 2fer

Would heavy rain have the same affect and make the mouths close?

This is the thing that blew my mind about them when I first got mine - they actually have a built-in timer to make sure they caught something living, and thus worth digesting.

When something first lands in one of the traps and touches a trigger hair, the plant does nothing - it has to sense two trigger hairs being touched within 20 seconds for it to snap shut, and then it has to sense more hairs being triggered - five in total - in order for it to tighten even more and then start digestion.

The video above actually only shows the first stage of the trap closing - if it was 30-60 seconds longer you would have seen the trap shut tighter, so there were no gaps left, as the flies kept moving around inside.

If a trap was accidentally triggered without live prey inside (like by a rain drop), or a fly managed to get out in time, then the trap would shut but when the plant didn't detect anything still moving inside it would open again slowly - takes about a day or two.

But don't trigger them on purpose - it takes a lot of energy for the plant to close and reopen them, and if it's not getting any food from the effort it could kill the plant.

The traps themselves can last for a few months before dying off and being replaced. They can only be triggered so many times though, so once they've opened and closed a few times they become inactive and basically just serve as normal leaves for photosynthesis.

They digest insects in about 10 days. The traps can last a few months, but they can only be triggered so many times - it takes a lot of energy, and if they keep catching bugs it just gets harder for the planet to digest them every time as it can't remove the old dead insects, so at a certain point they become inactive and just serve as regular leaves for photosynthesis until they die off. The plant itself is constantly growing new traps and they can live for 20+ years.

The actual traps/leaves last for up to three months. They can only be triggered a few times, but once they can't digest insects anymore they still stick around for a while, acting as regular leaves for photosynthesis, before they die off - the plant is constantly growing new ones.

The plants as a whole are actually pretty long lived - they're slow to mature and can live for 20+ years.

Yet I can swat my hand down fast as lightning and these little assholes would still get away.

>Gentle rain can close traps, but this is not a common event. The necessity of two or more stimuli to close a trap accounts for traps general lack of responsiveness to raindrops in light rainfall. Traps observed to be closed by raindrops began reopening in an average of 4.5 hours and full reopening averaged 15.8 hours.

>Only 6 to 12% of the traps in the field of view were closed by intense rain. Even rain so heavy that the traps were submerged in water left most of the traps open. Gentle rain can close traps, but this is not a common event.

• Research Gate

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352295766_Can_Venus_flytraps_be_triggered_to_close_by_raindrops#:~:text=Only%206%20to%2012%25%20of,is%20not%20a%20common%20event.

Interesting, so the plant has evolved to deal with the stimulus from rain drops. Thanks for sharing!

No problem :)

TIL

Maybe. I just use aerosol sprays to wet their wings so that they can’t fly

i hate flies

#UNSTOPPABLE

GODLIKE

I was today years old when I discovered this. How did I miss out?! So many times playing with dormmates...

So it’s not just a clever name?

The same is true with marriages

Satisfying to watch

The video of the slug just doing whatev when he gets trapped like "c-c-c-combo breaker"

Ahh okay thank you for clarifying that! That makes a lot more sense. Though I never had good luck with them. They rarely lived for more than a year. Though I keep all my other plants mostly in a very good shape.

Yeah, they're not the easiest plants to keep alive! My first one only lasted 9 months - it went dormant for the winter and then just didn't wake up.

My second one is going on for 2 years now - I bought it some higher quality soil and a bigger pot, one where you can water it from the bottom so the soil is always just damp, which is what they like.