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🗓️ 10 January 2024
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Have you ever seen a Venus flytrap in action? An unsuspecting insect lands inside and BAM! The plant’s toothy leaves snap shut in a fraction of a second! But what happens to the insects that get stuck inside a Venus flytrap? We asked insect expert Meredith Cenzer to help us find the answer.
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0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on this is Moment of Uum. |
0:04.0 | Moment of Uum comes to you from APM Studios. |
0:12.0 | I'm Buffalo Brad, the most famous fly boy in the Wild Wild West. You might be thinking, did he just say Fly Boy? Yes, sir, I sure did you did. I sure did. You've probably heard of cowboys, amateurs. |
0:38.0 | Us flyboys, we're the real deal. We wrangle the fastest, most fearsome beasts in the land. House flies. |
0:49.3 | Did you know that a house fly can fly more than six miles per hour and they can fly up down backwards they can even |
0:58.3 | land on the ceiling plus they're really, really tiny. |
1:02.6 | We have to be quick on our feet to rope those spry flies. |
1:06.5 | But you know what really gets my lasso in a twist? |
1:10.1 | When someone says, you flyboys ain't nothing compared to the true fly hunters of the world |
1:16.0 | Venus fly traps |
1:19.4 | Really gets my traps in a bunch, because they're kind of right? |
1:26.2 | Venus fly traps are incredible. |
1:28.3 | I mean, their sharp-toothy leaves can snap shut |
1:31.5 | and trap a fly in a fraction of a second. |
1:34.0 | How can I, Buffalo Brad, the most feared and famous fly boy in the wild wild west, compete with that? |
1:42.0 | I mean, how do Venus fly traps do it anyway? |
1:47.0 | And what do they do with all those flies once they trap them? |
1:51.0 | My pal David was just asking about this. |
1:54.0 | When a Venus fly trap eats a bug, it gets dissolved into goo. |
2:07.6 | Hi, my name is Meredith Senser and I'm an entomologist, which means that I am an expert in insects. |
2:17.0 | When a Venus fly trap closes, it seals the leaves together and turns into a stomach and any insect trapped inside that stomach will be digested. The first thing that actually happens is the plant |
2:38.0 | wants to make sure that it's actually an insect in there and not something else that has fallen in. So the leaves of the Venus |
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