fly trap
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Was it your intention to make the Venus fly trap in the music video look like a “Stranger Things” Demogorgon?
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
He named it “Audrey II” after the ravenous and cruel human-eating Venus fly trap in Little Shop of Horrors.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2023
A Venus fly trap has a very low sensitivity threshold, yet it can tell the difference between the light touch of an insect and a drop of rainwater or wind.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Most carnivorous plants are full-time predators—the Venus fly trap, for example, lies in wait year-round to snag flies with its jawlike leaves.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 9, 2021
So also the Venus' fly trap captures insects by means of its leaf, which closes upon the prey when certain sensitive hairs have given the signal that the animal has been trapped.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various
