Science Facts Thursday: The Venus Flytrap

This week we bring you some facts on the Venus Flytrap!

The Venus Flytrap is a carnivorous plant, which means it eats bugs! Eww!

They are luciously green, with long leaves and stems that have a heart shaped head with a pink cushiony inner. They can also flower, usually in the springtime.

Like all plants, they still need sunlight and water to grow, but get most of their nutrients from insects. This means they can live in areas were the soil isn't as rich in delicious nutrients such as swamps.

Their favourite foods are ants, spiders, beetles and flies. Totally mega gross.

Firstly, the flytrap attacts insects to come over, by oozing tasty nectar. Once they land on the pink cushiony pads, this tickles tiny tiny hairs that let the flytrap know food has arrived. They rely on this technique as they have no eyes.
The flytrap snaps shut, trapping its prey inside. It then produces enzymes that digest all the nutrients from the unlucky bug, this process can take upto ten days. It then reopens, leaving the left overs, and awaits more noms to come by.

Pop the music on pause ^ and check out this video to see the flytrap in action, be warned, it is scary.

Hope you enjoyed this weeks facts, don't forget to pop by next week for more illustrated science facts.

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Science Facts Thursday: Caterpillar Noms

Science facts Thursday! Try saying that with a mouthful of avocado.

Each Thursday I will create a post on an interesting scientific fact. My definition of science is quite broad, so you will need an open mind, also accuracy isn't always guaranteed, as apparently you can't rely on Wikipedia for everything.

So today, I bring you an interesting fact on caterpillars.

Holy moley, guacamole!

Yikes!

That is one heck of an appetite! No wonder there are always nom bites out of all my plants.

Ginge and Sloth Vs food, on this occasion, food won.

Hope you enjoyed today's science fact. Learn something new, and pointless, every Thursday at Cosmos and Crayons :)

Ginge and friends: Burritos at the park

 Since it was a lovely sunny morning, me and my chum Wensdi ( http://whatiswensdi.blogspot.co.uk ) thought it would be a brilliant idea to get burritos , 'cos a girl has got to eat, and sit and nom them in the park, whilst we fill our sketch books with scribbles.

Almost heart shaped!

Spooky Trees

We have recently been introduced to a new eatery called Coco's, which does the best burritos and tacos, so much so I ate there three times last week.

Tasty tacos!

This is what £5 will get you. Unbelievably delicious.

Today we went for take out, however, by the time we got to the park the sunshine had gone.

Falafel burrito with all the trimmings!

Wensdi omnomnoming.

But it didn't stop us from enjoying our noms.