What would happen if your hand or leg got caught in a Venus Fly Trap?

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Answer 1

Anything as large as your hand or leg could easily be removed, since the Flytrap rarely exceeds a couple inches in diameter when open. They grow largest in the sunniest climate, but hibernate in the winter.

The Venus Flytrap is designed or evolved to securely hold any creature that will fit within the enclosed trap, most likely spiders or flying insects.

If the trigger hairs inside the trap are brushed in a certain way that suggests a visitor, it will slam shut in as little as .03 seconds - about one-tenth the blink of an eye. It can reopen in as little as 24 hours, but each trap can only perform this cycle a few times before it dies.

Inside the reddish interior of the mature trap are glands for secreting digestive enzymes that break down the prey into nitrogen for food, but flesh from mammals like ourselves would likely rot within its jaws.

If you were small enough to be caught in a Venus Flytrap, or the plants were large enough to trap you, you would not want to be walking around in its natural habitat anyway, which is the marshy, grassy, boggy savannas off the shores of the Carolinas, where water is close to the surface, and you are more likely to get stuck in quicksand than in the leaves of a carnivorous plant.

I raised Flytraps when I was a kid. While they are a marvel of nature, they are not a toy. Aside from watering and other necessary care,  they are best left alone.

Answer 2

Not much.  If you left it in there it wuold probably open up after a while.  And you could just pull it out.

Answer 3

The poor plant would be crushed.

I like venus flytraps although they are  swamp plants that only come from one location on the planet, the swamps of the Carolina coast in the USA..

They are far to small to get anythin caught in, unless you are small like a fly yourself.

Answer 4

it would itch after