The Insect Eating Plant: Venus Flytrap The Venus flytrap is a very interesting plant. This plant produces a sweet aroma of nectar. As a result, a hungry fly is tempted by this scrumptious meal. While enjoying the nectar, the fly accidently touches one of the flytrap’s hairs. Eventually, a second hair is tickled, prompting the jaws of death, which crushes down on the victim, like a snapping turtle. Immediately, “locking their spiky teeth together”1 the flytrap’s jaws trap the fly. When the fly is surrounded, the plant will start to digest it. To do this, the flytrap begins the enzyme process. These enzymes turn the fly into goo and thus the plant is able to eat the fly’s innards. After, ten or more days the fly’s exoskeleton is released
