Clenched Jaws & Good Soup- Venus Fly Trap

This week we're kicking off our halloween mini-series with a carnivorous plant filled with mysteries, drama, and fly goo- Venus fly traps!

If you like episodes heavy on the fun facts, or when I go off script, this one is for you!

Sources:

https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Plants-and-Fungi/Venus-Flytrap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_flytrap#Proposed_evolutionary_history

https://gardenofgodsandmonsters.wordpress.com/2014/08/17/bite-me-aphrodite-dionaea-muscipula/comment-page-1/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3747514/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3115172/#:~:text=It%20usually%20takes%205%E2%80%937,can%20begin%20to%20open%20again.&text=Closing%20states%20of%20the%20Venus%20flytrap%20(Dionaea%20muscipula).

https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2021/10/from-poetry-to-pulp-fiction-carnivorous-plants-in-popular-culture.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4009267/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3747514/

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