Carnivorous plants: How they lure, trap and digest

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

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Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 16 September 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Most plants get the energy and nutrients they need from water, sunlight, air and soil. But carnivorous plants get key nutrients from a different source: bugs. We’ll find out how they do it and talk about the mystery of how venus fly traps snap shut. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Brains on from MPR News and Southern California Public Radio, where
0:10.0	serious about being curious.
0:12.0	I'm Molly Bloom.
0:13.0	Okay, I've always wanted to try this.
0:17.5	In a world where herbivores eat plants and carnivores eat animals comes a plant that eats
0:26.8	animals.
0:27.8	It's called a carnivorous plant.
0:31.0	And I ask you, who could tame such a plant?
0:34.6	Her name...
0:36.0	Cassidy.
0:37.0	My name is Cassidy and I live in Chino Hills and I'm seven years old and I'm in second grade.
0:44.8	Cassidy grows Venus flytrops.
0:46.6	Yes, I do.
0:48.2	And what do these fearsome organisms look like?
0:50.2	You know plants that have leaves.
0:52.2	It's just imagine there's a butterfly there that makes a little V. And then there's points
0:58.3	on the butterflies, um, little wings.
1:02.3	That would be it.
1:03.8	That would be a Venus flytrap.
1:06.3	Okay, so maybe fearsome isn't the best word to describe these carnivorous plants, but
1:10.3	they are super cool.
1:11.9	And Venus flytrops are just the tip of the iceberg.
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