9/24/2023 0 Comments Survivors the quest venus fly trapI was also surprised by that because I thought that Venus flytraps would be tropical, or they would at least not be from here.ĮRIC: Yeah, it was super surprising. Yeah, it is found in swampy areas where the soil isn't great. It was the most fascinating part the first time I watched the program, because in my mind, I'm thinking carnivorous plants, deep in the remote jungles, far, far away from the United States. You mentioned the soil that doesn't have the nutrients. And insects were the way that they developed it.ĮRIC: Yeah, so the location of where you find them. So they had to develop a different way to get those nutrients. But Venus flytraps and other carnivorous plants are usually found in soil that doesn't have those nutrients they need. So most plants usually find nutrients in the soil, that's phosphorus, that's nitrogen, things that they need to grow. But they get them through bugs instead of the soil in some cases. Instead, they need insects for nutrients.ĮRIC: So that's things that you normally find in the soil that plants kind of absorb and then use in their structure. But Venus flytraps, similar to most plants, can actually photosynthesize. We humans and other animals eat other animals for energy. But it is probably the most famous one.ĮRIC: And they are carnivores for the same reason that animals are, they're just obtaining the materials they need to survive. And there are different kinds of carnivorous plants. MAYRA: There are so many different species of carnivorous plants. There's lots of different kinds and even different forms of carnivorous plants. But other carnivorous plants can even eat slightly bigger things that aren't just insects and bugs.ĮRIC: So the Venus flytrap is not alone. And I bring out this little plant and everybody's like, that's a carnivore, but yes, it very much is, and it eats insects. Because everybody is expecting another carnivore, we get questions like, oh, it might be a tiger, or it might be something big. And yeah, it's one of my favorite surprises. And then you put it away and take out a tiny little plant, but it's also a carnivore. You teach a program about carnivores, you bring out a snake and talk about its adaptations. ERIC: So I've wanted to do this episode for a while because it's one of my favorite unexpected surprises here at the museum.
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