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Fooling around with my macro set-up this afternoon, and this was the best of the bunch of fly shots. I used my nikon 105mm +48mm of extension tubes, plus a decent crop to get this tight shot of a house fly. I need to figure out a way to get closer, and just capture the compound eyes, That might involve a reverse lens set-up. Anyway, this fly is ready to spring his trap on you! :) View large for best detail.
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Supporting Macro Monday theme - "Crinkled, Wrinkled, Folded or Creased" - Our Flytrap has been successful and by folding in has caught lunch.
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Venus Flytrap . Latex Lips
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My Venus Fly-trap. There are not many small flies this year so we are having to catch some to feed Audrey's appetite.
Drusilla's cat enjoys being in the conservatory with her.
Black cabinet - thrift store recipe box repainted
Purple door - Target
Floor - roll of paper from Hobby Lobby
cat - thrift store find
pumpkin - Michaels, air plant added
Venus flytrap at the Conservatory of Flowers, San Francisco
Carnivorous plants don't actually need to eat insects to survive, but are found in areas where the soil is low in nutrients, particularly nitrogen, and live food can provide extra nutrients.
My Venus flytrap is feeding very well this summer - here a housefly much bigger than the trap has been caught - and digested.
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Just needed something completely different from snow and old barns. Dug deep into my archives and came up with this macro of a leaf tip of a Venus Flytrap plant. A splash of colour feels good today - a sunny day, but with a temperature of -18C (-0.4°F) with a windchill of -24C (-11.2°F).
This macro shot shows the trap slightly open. I'm not sure why some traps are green and others more pink, orange or red, but I've had all these colours on one single plant. Perhaps they change colour with age? This leaf tip was somewhere around half to three-quarters of an inch long.
"The Venus Flytrap, Dionaea muscipula, is a carnivorous plant that catches and digests animal prey—mostly insects and arachnids. Its trapping structure is formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant's leaves and is triggered by tiny hairs on their inner surfaces. When an insect or spider crawling along the leaves contacts a hair, the trap closes if a different hair is contacted within twenty seconds of the first strike. The requirement of redundant triggering in this mechanism serves as a safeguard against a waste of energy in trapping objects with no nutritional value."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Flytrap
David Attenborough looks at how this well known carnivorous plant captures its prey. This short video is from the BBC.
Yes, this is a real plant called Dionaea 'Shark Teeth' - a cultivar of Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), the most well-known carnivorous plant.
The plant had just missed a catch, hence the half-closed trap. The rather short "teeth" of this variety sometimes let insects escape from the traps before they seal. The regular species is more effective in that regard.
In the background is a fully opened trap, as well as the core of the rosette, from which leaves and traps develop.
Although a not-so-recent picture, it's one of my favorites, as it shows a carnivorous plant in its most animal-like aspect.
I made a weird little sculpture thingy! She's a DIM Laia customized by me, floating in a jar I designed. The laser etched glass is also a design I created. She's on display at "Otherworlds Books" in Edmonds all month ♥
Insect consuming pitcher plants, Botanic Gardens, Cairns, Australia.
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The Venus flytrap is folded from a 50x50 square of lokta and the fly is from a 7x7 square of Kami
For the plant challenge on the french forum
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My Venus Flytrap just had some newborn leaves... ready for some flies...
Unfortunately we don't have any around.
My favorite Monster High pets (that I own). From left to right:
-Roux (Rochelle's gryphon)
-Rhuen (Spectra's ferret)
-Chewlian (Venus' flytrap)
-Captain Penny (Robecca's penguin)
Furthermore: Shoo, Hissette and Neptuna, but I sadly don't own them (yet).
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Le mécanisme de capture de la « Vénus attrape-mouche » est stupéfiant, et poussa Charles Darwin à dire que la dionée était « l'une des plantes les plus merveilleuses au monde » (...)
La partie supérieure du limbe est formée par le piège, une sorte de mâchoire composée de deux lobes séparés et reliés par une nervure centrale épaisse.(...)
À la périphérie des deux lobes, on trouve une série de 15 à 20 dents marginales légèrement courbées vers l'intérieur. À la bordure des lobes et située sur la face interne des parois, la bande périphérique comporte des petites glandes sessiles qui sécrètent un nectar riche en glucides afin d'attirer les proies.
cif: Wikipedia fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion%C3%A9e_attrape-mouche
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The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant (...)
The mechanism of capture of the "Venus flytrap" is astounding, and led Charles Darwin to say that the Venus flytrap was "one of the most wonderful plants in the world" (...)
The upper part of the lamina is formed by the trap, a kind of jaw composed of two separate lobes connected by a thick central rib.(...)
At the periphery of the two lobes there is a series of 15 to 20 slightly inwardly curved marginal teeth. At the edge of the lobes and located on the inner face of the walls, the peripheral band has small sessile glands which secrete a nectar rich in carbohydrates in order to attract prey. (Google translation)
Venus Flytrap Dionaeaceae Plant
A carnivorous plant within the sundew family Droseracae.
I was watching one of my fave gardening show "Gardeners World" on Britbox, hosted my Monty Don, he was featuring a couple that specializes in this genus. I was fascinated and inspired by the beauty of these super interesting plants I decided to create some of the most well known species. More to come.
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PP work in Adobe PS Elements 2024 Raw filters.
Texture overlay by French Kiss/Cheer.
botanical drawing of a single Venus flytrap Saracenia flower macro drawn with finely penciled details and edges with stem side view on clean white background
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Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)
reflected in
Spaghetti serving spoon (Servientes cochleari var. spaghetti)
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This population of Venus Flytraps occur near Apalachicola National Forest (there are also populations in the forest proper), however they are not a native plant. I still enjoy stopping by to see and photograph them.