Unbelievable Venus Flytrap Secrets Revealed!

2005 the secret has been revealed: The flytrap's leaves snap from convex to concave the same way that a contact lens can flip inside out, the scientists say. Venus flytraps are known for the fact that their catching leaves close in a flash when unsuspecting prey touch highly sensitive trigger hairs twice in a row. A team of researchers from eth zurich. 2005 a team of researchers has solved the riddle of one of the plant kingdoms fastest and most ferocious movements:

2005 taking just a tenth of a second, the snapping mechanism that a venus fly trap uses to capture its prey is one of the fastest movements in the plant kingdom. To find out whether venus flytraps record touches, in the new study hedrich and his colleagues fooled the plants into thinking they'd landed an insect by applying increasing numbers of. 2005 now researchers have found tensile strength is behind the plant's speedy clampdown on a hapless insect. Once trigger hairs are tripped by the prey, the plant bends its. 2005 a team of researchers has solved the riddle of one of the plant kingdom's fastest and most ferocious movements: