Meat-Eating Plants

Dionaea muscipula

Meat-eating plants? Yes, some species of plants eat meat for their meals. What kind of plants is that? What meat?

Well, meat-eating plants or carnivorous plants are plants that get their nutrients from trapping and eating animals or protozoans, especially insects. These plants usually grow in a place where the soil is poor of nutrients such as nitrogen. Being carnivorous is the way for adaptation.

The species produces small, shiny black seeds 

Venus flytrap (Dionea muscipula) is one of the example for meat-eating plants. It eats insects or spider for its nutrients because it grows at poor nutrients soil. When an insect or spider crawling along the leaves contacts a hair, the trap closes.

Venus flytraps produce flowers in the spring 

Most meat-eating plants selectively feed on specific prey. This selection is due to the available prey and the type of trap used by the organism. With the Venus flytrap, prey is limited to beetles, spiders and other crawling arthropods.

(Image from wikipedia)

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Where Do Tears Come From?

Tears are produced by tear glands, which are small glands inside your upper eyelid. Tears keep the surface of your eyeball clean and moist, and help protect your eye from damage.

When you blink, your eyelids spread the tears over the surface of the eye. Sometimes tears flow over your lower eyelid, but mostly the tears flow down a tiny tube at the edge of your lower eyelid, next to your nose – if you look very carefully you can see a tiny dot that is the beginning of this tube. This tube carries the tears to the back of your nose (and this is why your nose ‘runs’ when you cry!)

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