Venus flytraps are even crazier than we thought

[Mike Wehner]

• Venus flytraps are carnivorous plants that consume insects in order to fulfill their own nutritional requirements.
• The plants are incredible in many ways, but a new study reveals something truly bizarre about them.
• According to the researchers, Venus flytraps produce a measurable magnetic field as they trap and digest their prey.

Most plants on Earth get everything they need through the ground in which they grow, rain falling from the sky, and sunlight beaming down on them from above. Some, however, have adapted to nutritional deficiencies in the soil of some regions and evolved to get those nutrients from other sources. Carnivorous plants don't eat insects just because they want to. They do it because they need to in order to survive.

One of the most famous of all carnivorous plants is the Venus flytrap. An elegantly simple plant that uses traps lined with fine hair-like fibers that snap shut as soon as it is triggered by an unassuming insect. They are remarkable plants, and new research reveals that they're even more incredible than previously thought. You see, it seems that these plants can actually generate their own magnetic field.

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