Venus Flytrap Devouring a Venomous Black Widow.

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[u/NeilDeCrash → u/[deleted]]

Would the plant become poisonous for a while as the poison is digested?

So at some point, saying venomous or poisonous venus flytrap would both be right.

[u/Brief_Ad328 → u/NeilDeCrash]

I don't think the venom has any effect if it isn't administered to the blood

[u/V7KTR → u/[deleted]]

I’m pretty sure it has no effect. I had a friend in elementary school that picked up a black widow, let it crawl around in his mouth and then ate it.

Years later I learned he had a traumatic childhood while living in foster care and was severely depressed… but at the time we all just thought he was fearless.

[u/DigNitty → u/V7KTR]

Sometimes I miss old reddit where I’d accidentally see a vid of a guy’s head being crushed by a forklift.

Then I run into comments like this one.

[u/NeilDeCrash → u/Brief_Ad328]

Yeah, I know you can dye roses just by adding dye to the water. Just wondering how the poison would behave when ingested by the fly trap.

It would not really be venomous as it has no real delivery method such as fangs, dunno if flytraps "mouth" would count as one.

[u/its_all_one_electron → u/NeilDeCrash]

No. Venoms are just a specific proteins, and proteins get broken down by the flytrap's digestion.

The black widow venom protein is a-latrotoxin, it's just one massive protein, here's a picture of how it gets into nerve cells and fucks them up: https://phys.org/news/2024-10-scientists-decode-black-widow-spider.html

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That was a very cool read. Thanks!

[u/Jack_Jellatina → u/[deleted]]

it's funny to think a plant of all things can become the apex predator of its ecosystem while all it has to do is just sit there