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Feeding Locust to Venus Flytrap (timelapse)

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I quite like this timelapse because it shows something people don't often notice. When a Venus Flytrap shuts, it doesn't completely close because often in the wild, things like leaves of raindrops might land in the trap. Thing is, once it senses movement within the closed trap, it knows it has caught live prey and so closes in on it.

You can see an example of this in this video at around the 5 second mark. Notice how the Locust starts to move and the flytrap speeds up it's closure.

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