Springtime in the swamp

Pictures of flora & fauna in the S.E. U.S. Green Swamp. See www.lisa-jarvis.com for details.

Another germinating fly trap seed. They all seem to make that ring of root hairs.

Shot through terrariam glass.

We took advantage of the Tucson Botanical Gardens dog days of summer to give Dylan a nice little walk and enjoy the gardens.

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A view from the top without the dirty glass obstructing the view. I'd love one of these tanks.

Seymore bites.

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Have you ever seen a Venus flytrap in bloom? Now you have.

a sluggy dinner

I have kept a Venus flytrap alive long enough to put out a bloom.

An enhanced image from Durham Botanical Gardens.

RESCUE! Disposable Fly Trap

Venus Flytrap Wallpaper 1

Audrey II has been catching lots of bugs this summer!

Venus' flytrap growing wild in the swamp

Pictures of flora & fauna in the S.E. U.S. Green Swamp. See www.lisa-jarvis.com for details.

Best viewed large On Black. The Venus's-flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) uses its claw-like leaves to capture insects. Trigger hairs sense when an insect has landed. If two or more trigger hairs are touched, the trap springs shut. Digestive enzymes consume the soft parts of the insect within a few days and then the trap reopens, redy to catch its next meal.

Aren't they cute? Such a fun project! These seedlings got just big enough to pot them up at the very end of the semester.

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Venus FlyTraps, $9.95 ea

Venus flytrap, a little more than a year old. Typical Dionaea of some sort.

Real x Head x Popsoda x Paul Kaiju

Charles has only been here a couple of months, but survived almost completely drying out while adjusting from the grocery store, and sprang back from it healthy and strong. He has 2.5 inch long leaves and 1 inch traps, shows potential for good color next year.

In a garden centre, Lechlade.

To trigger closing of a venus flytrap leaf, the intruder must touch one of four hairs twice, or touch two different hairs in rapid succession.

Custom MUNNY for the October 2008 MUNNY Contest @ Gnosis Store and Gallery (back view)

Growing in one of the glasshouses at the Oxford Botanic Gardens.

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.

Has anyone ever seen one of these bloom before?

(I think we may have overfed it on flies)

Dionaea muscipula

Adventures in tissue culture with the Plant Molecular Biology course. Nice-looking Venus fly trap stage 3 tissue culture in a glass culture tube with pretransplant medium for rooting. The roots are black with growing tips sometimes looking orange. You can see it digging into the agar.

at Henry Doorly zoo, Omaha, Nebraska

Kew Gardens, London.