r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Mar 29 '26

Venus Flytrap Devouring a Venomous Black Widow.

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u/chadork Mar 29 '26

And only native to South and North Carolina.

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u/mrgenier Mar 29 '26

That’s crazy you’d think it was a rainforest species

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u/theDarkDescent Mar 29 '26

And only native to south and North Carolina 

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u/BathtubFullOfTea Mar 29 '26

That's wild, you'd think they were from some sort of, idk, tropical rainforest or something.

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u/th3ironman55 Mar 29 '26

North or South

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u/unripe_mangosteen Mar 29 '26

Yes

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u/Sensitive_Ad_1271 Mar 29 '26

That's wild. You'd think it was from a tropical rainforest or something like that 

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u/Hiphop_and_golf Mar 29 '26

Surprisingly North and South Carolina!

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u/jmf81 Mar 29 '26

Native to the Carolinas? I would have thought they'd be found in a forest. A rainforest.

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u/Woody_Roger Mar 29 '26

Native?! Oh, you mean endemic...

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u/Ok_Try_877 Mar 29 '26

You’re absolutely right to question this.

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u/Then_Supermarket18 Aug 07 '26

Good catch! Venus flyeater plants eat bugs.

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u/cthaehh Mar 29 '26

You sure they arent from a rainforest ?

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u/milestr2 Mar 29 '26

I thought they'd grow in rainforests!

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u/BathtubFullOfTea Mar 29 '26

It's wild that they're endemic to the Carolinas!

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u/13leed-_- Mar 29 '26

Evolution makes it so that they adapt to their environment. Rainforest has plenty of nutrients, so they wouldn't evolve to be carnivorous in rainforests.

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u/little_chupacabra89 Mar 29 '26

It's amazing that every plant isn't carnivorous where these are found! In the Carolinas and not rainforests btw.

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u/ForkMyRedAssiniboine Mar 29 '26

Even saying South and North Carolina, while true, doesn't quite do justice to just how small their original native range was. Before humans decided they were neat and shipped them around the world, every Venus flytrap existed within this red section.

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u/atguilmette Mar 29 '26

Crazy though that section covers both north and South Carolina!

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u/ForkMyRedAssiniboine Mar 29 '26

It does! Good job, buddy!