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Collective Prey Capture By Juvenile Venus Flytraps (Dionaea Muscipula), Steven Rosen
Collective Prey Capture By Juvenile Venus Flytraps (Dionaea Muscipula), Steven Rosen
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The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), first described by Charles Darwin, is a unique carnivorous plant which acquires prey using leaf blades modified into snap-traps. A recent study showed that prey capture by flytraps was not selective. With this study we examined prey capture rates further by analyzing D. muscipula traps less than 1 em in length to determine if juvenile flytraps differ from adults. Similar to the earlier findings, trap size appeared to play no role in prey capture success. This was likely due to the fact that 88% of all prey items recovered were smaller than the smallest collected …