Will a Venus Flytrap eat jelly beans instead of flies?

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/09/30/will-a-venus-flytrap-eat-jelly-beans-instead-of-flies.html

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Telling the plant it was getting wild cherry and then giving it spicy cinnamon is inhumane in the extreme.

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Can’t wait for the first cvoncerned vegan to start a petition in order to have flytraps fed with vegan products …

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Or any of the gross flavors like booger, mud or fart.

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OTOH, it might like dirt flavor.

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I always wondered why they didn’t just keep licorice the same on that chart.

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TIL: venus fly traps can count! that’s pretty wild.

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If a Venus Flytrap is fed ground-up Republicans, will it go conservative?

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Is there another kind of candy with the nitrogen and phosphorous that Venus Fly-traps evidently crave? Would plant-food work better?

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Don’t know, but the world would be a better place!

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If you touch it right it closes but that takes energy the plant doesn’t have to spare.
Starving your Venus Fly Trap just to watch it close is a bit mean.

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I wonder how rich in nitrogen jelly beans are? From my own understanding, Venus fly traps occur in areas where there is low nitrogen in the soil, so they adapted a way of getting the nitrogen from bugs.

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We got a Venus Flytrap as a gift when I was a kid, I remember being disappointed – it was tiny, it wasn’t constantly gobbling up flies like I assumed-- after a few failed attempts to get a bug to crawl inside we put a tiny piece of salami or bologna in it. It closed on the luncheon meat, then died a few weeks later.

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Your understanding agrees with what the video said, which also stated that jelly beans are almost entirely sucrose/fructose.

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I’m just guessing this particular Venus Flytrap prefers jelly beans…

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I don’t see the Kickstarter link here for this.

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@frauenfelder, thank you so much for providing the TLDR so I don’t have to actually watch another YouTube video.

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Centipede/Strawberry Jam seems like the safest option. But maybe I’m underestimating the taste of centipedes.

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If you’ve ever played BeanBoozled, there really are no safe options. Only degrees of bad.

The Jelly Belly people pride themselves on making their flavors as accurate as possible.

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