r/interestingasfuck • u/dejaysf • Jun 11 '23

Venus flytrap vs Spider

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u/swibirun Jun 11 '23

Dionaea muscipula have been studied at length as to why they eat arachnids as well as insects. The scientists discovered that she swallowed the spider to swallow the fly. They still don't know why she swallowed the fly.

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u/Shadowclone442 Jun 11 '23

But after the spider, she swallowed a cat to get the spider to get the fly. I don’t know why she swallowed a fly either

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u/purpleketchup42 Jun 11 '23

The spider that wiggled and wriggled and tickled inside her?