The Venus flytrap is the most famous meat-eating plant in the world! It has special leaves that look like little green mouths with sharp “teeth” along the edges. Venus flytraps only grow wild in one small area near the coast of North Carolina and South Carolina.
Each mouth-shaped leaf has six tiny trigger hairs inside it. A bug has to touch two of those hairs within about twenty seconds for the trap to snap shut. This keeps the plant from wasting energy closing on raindrops or bits of dirt. If a bug triggers those hairs, SNAP! The leaf closes tight in less than one second.
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