More like on the trap

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

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

"NO NO FUUUUUUCKK"

TIL

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.

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

Don’t venus fly traps die after flowering?

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

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

Kilimanjaro

ILL

^(ILL)

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

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.

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

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

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.

Life flashing before your eyes

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?

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

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Double play!

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.

Reminds of KY.

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

"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.

love crows and ravens.....