What Makes a Venus Flytrap Snap

To avoid wasting digestive energy, the plant only seals shut after sensing certain prey movements.

What Makes a Venus Flytrap Snap

To avoid wasting digestive energy, the plant only seals shut after sensing certain prey movements.

Venus flytrap

Kerry Grens | Mar 1, 2020 | 1 min read

Trigger hairs on the lobes of the trap are tuned to respond to wriggling prey.

Catherine Offord | Jan 24, 2016 | 2 min read

The Venus flytrap tailors its response to prey by counting the number of action potentials induced by trigger hairs inside its trap.