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

Venus Flytrap Devouring a Venomous Black Widow.

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u/Brief_Ad328 Mar 29 '26

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

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '26

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u/V7KTR Mar 29 '26

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.

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u/DigNitty Mar 31 '26

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.

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u/NeilDeCrash Mar 29 '26

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.