what do venus flytrap plants eat?
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the large ones eat meat..like pieces of raw chicken and beef...the smaller ones just eat bugs the fly by and land on it
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It's not that they're poisonous but they taste very bitter because they sequester certain chemicals from milkweed. Once a young bird eats one monarch, it never eats another. And actually not all monarchs taste that bitter - but enough to eventually convince most birds to look elsewhere. \n\nThe ability of insects to detoxify or sequester plant chemicals is not a random mutation or even a fixed thing. The plant made the chemicals to deter insect feeding (that is, plants with bitter tasting foliage survived when others did not, so now most of the plant population is bitter). Insects then evolved methods to detoxify these chemicals (that is, the caterpillars that could stomach the taste survived and the genes that allowed this behavior multiplied in the population). The process is known as coevolution and takes millennia. Insects are quite often specific to just one type of plant - they grow up together (evolutionarily speaking) and are constantly changing but at a rate we humans can not readily see.
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Knowing the food habits of the particular ant species is important in ant management because it may enable the location and elimination of the food that is attracting the ants to the site, it can help to locate foraging trails to track the ants back to their nest, and it can help to choose an effective bait. \n\nAnts feed on many different types of food. Some species will feed on practically anything; others may limit their food to a narrow range. Ants infesting structures are typically feeding on "people food," both food in storage (sugar, cakes, cookies, breakfast cereals, etc.) and food from spills and garbage. But they may also be preying on other insects or scavenging on dead insects in windows or lights.\n\nFood preferences are often seasonal. When the queen is actively laying eggs, worker ants typically gather protein- based foods for the queen. At other times they may ignore protein foods completely and restrict their foraging to sugars and greases. \n\nMany ants obtain sugar by feeding on honeydew, a sweet substance secreted by aphids and other plant-sucking insects. They often defend these insects from predators and tend them as if they were their personal food supply. Indoor infestations of ants are occasionally traced to large populations of aphids on outdoor foundation plants or indoor houseplants.
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Plants survive by adapting to the environment.  If the local fauna is eating the plant, the plant will develop a toxicity to ward off such animals form dining on the plant or the plant will reproduce in such numbers that a bite here and there doesn't matter.\n\nThe trick comes in when the animal develops a bond with a particular plant and adapts to the toxicity and uses this plant toxin to form its own shield against its predators--such as Monarch Butterflies and Milk weed or Gulf fliterary butterflies and the corky stemed passion flower.
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The spider plant\n\nand the other link has a couple more
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insecto (some people eat insects)
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"Variation in Diet\nAlthough helodermatid lizards are specialists on vertebrate nests, they appear to be generalists regarding the kinds of nests they exploit.\nA diversity of prey species and sizes has been documented in the diets of Beaded Lizards and Gila Monsters.  Although some of these prey items are relatively small lizard and snake eggs, others, such as quail nets and nestling rabbits, are large and provice substantial energy gains per food item.  A meal of cottontail nestlings can weigh over one-third the mass of an adult Gila Monster and provide nearly one-third of a Gila Monster's annual energy budget (Beck 1990; chap. 4).  Along with these energy benefits come the basic mechanical challenges of swallowing a large meal or a hard-shelled egg.  Egg-eating snakes of the genera Dasypeltis and Elachistodon have modifications of the jaws, teeth, skull, and even the vertebrae that allow them to efficiently swallow eggs (Gans 1974). Although helodermatid lizards are not so specialized, they do appear to use a few "tricks" to make eggs go down easier.\n\nFeeding Behavior\nHow Prey are Eaten\nHerrel et al. (1997) describe five stages of H. horridum eating quail eggs: approach, pierce, uptake, crush, and swallow.  A Beaded Lizard first locates the egg, both visually and by tongue-flicking, then rises on its front legs and bites the egg with its front teeth, piercing it without breaking it.  The piercing bite may be repeated several times, yet the egg remains intact.  During the uptake phase, the lizard maneuvers its jaws around the egg by either flicking the egg in the air or pushing it against an object or the ground.  The tongue aids in maneuvering the food object into the oral cavity, but the primary force used during the uptake phase is inertia generated by movements of the lizard's head, neck, and jaws.  Such a feeding mechanism, called inertial feeding, contrasts with lingual feeding mechanisms (using the tongue to deliver food objects into the mouth) shown by most other lizards (Gans 1969)..."\n\nNot information about the actual digestive system, but information about diet and feeding.  This is an excerpt from Daniel D. Beck's new book.\n\nLet me know if you want a photo of a Gila Monster!
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"High levels of Mn (189 and 465 ppm), Cu (30.5 and 21.8 ppm), Zn (151.9 and 75.1 ppm), and NO3 (4,600 and 7,200ppm) were found in the leaves of E. hirta and P. amarus respectively. No traces of cyanide and nitrite were found in the leaves of these two plants. Varying proportions of Fe (2,225 and 1,563ppm), Mg (5,500 and 5,800ppm), K (33,000 and 32,000ppm), Ca (21,000 and 26,500ppm), and Na (558.1 and 125 ppm) were found in the leaves of E. hirta and P. amarus respectively. The levels of chemicals are high enough to constitute a source of toxicosis to animals consuming them and their use for medicinal purpose should also be a source for concern most especially if the fresh leave decoctions are used." (1)
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Predators: Snakes, bats, and large birds.\n\nFull Name: Agalychnis callidryas \n\nDiet: The red eyed Tree Frog  frog hunts at night and feast on: flies, crickets, moths and even smaller frogs.
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If the answerer above had actually read the link he provided, he would have realized that millipedes are NOT predatory.  They feed on dead and decaying plant material.  They really like lettuce and cucumbers, but both of these are mostly water, so it's important to supplement it with other fruits and veggies.  Since they like 'em rotten, it's not important to get them out of the tank when they start getting icky.  This is a good way to use up those bendy carrots and freezer burned peas.  They also like fish food flakes (which are pretty much just algae).  I've heard that some of the brassicates (broccoli, cauliflower, kale, cabbage, Brussels sprouts) can be poisonous to millipedes.  I don't know if it's true or not.\n\nDead and decaying plant material from outside (leaves, weeds, etc) can also be provided, for habitat if not food.  You should put this in the freezer for a few days before adding to the tank to kill off any outside bugs that are hanging onto the material.\n\nThe rotting vegetation in the tank is probably the only drawback to keeping pet millipedes.  Other than that they're pretty easy to keep, and interesting.\n\nThey do exude a nasty smelling chemical when disturbed, which includes toxins like cyanide (!!!).  So it's important to wash your hands thoroughly after handling millipedes.\n\nThe millipedes themselves don't require spraying.  They do like high humidity in their habitat however, and if you are keeping them in a tank, then the plants and moss in the tank should be kept moist.  How often you need to do this will depend on how high the temperature inside the tank is, and what your local humidity is like.  Where I live it is very dry, and one tank of millipedes I helped take care of needed misting twice a day.  Other areas may require much less.\n\nHow long they live depends on what species they are.  Most pet millipedes are African giant millipedes, and will live 7 to 10 years if kept healthy.\n\nMale millipedes have a specialized pair of mating legs on their 7th body segment called gonopods.  These look kind of claw like, and may be carried tucked up under the body.  That's the easiest way to tell them apart from females, but it's not that easy to see even if you know what you're looking for.\n\nIf you do indeed get a male and female millipede, the mating will pretty much take care of itself.  Once they lay eggs, the little baby millipedes will stay under the soil, so you need to bury some food for them.  Another major food source for the babies is actually their parent's poop, so it's a good idea to bury it in the tank, rather than cleaning it out.
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Most amphibians eat insects, however their are alos species that prey primarily on fish, crustations and even mammals. \n\nCrocodiles are NOT amphibians. Thay are amphibious which is quite a different thing.
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Venus fly trap (Dionaea muscipula)\nButterwort\nPticher plants (Sarracenia sp.)\nSundews
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The squirrels in my yard eat anything they can find. Of course, the bird seed that I put out, but I have also seen them eat the bark off of small trees too. The leaf buds from trees, as well as digging for flower bulbs and bugs. They also find a few acorns that they had buried previously. Again, anything they can find, they are omnivorous.
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Mud-eater. Limnivores feed on algae and the micro-organisms that live within the substrate. These fish will also feed on small worms and shell fish such as snails.\n\nThese fishes have a small stomach and a long intestine and will feed almost continuously throughout the day.
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This threatened salamander is primarily fossorial (lives underground) as adults.  They feed on a variety of soft-bodied invertebrates. Small worms, beetle larvae, termites and the like comprise most of this salamander’s diet. Occasional forays on the surface may occur during periods of rain, affording the salamander an opportunity to seek prey on the surface or move to a new burrow location.
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dryflies,streamers and stonefly nymphs for the flyfisher and crawfish,nightcrawlers and plugs for the fly fisherman.  the larger ones feed at night.  good luck.
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EARTHWORMS.  THEY FEED ON DECAYING PLANTS, DIGEST IT AND FERTILIZE THE SOIL WITH THEIR EXCREMENT.  ALSO, THE ":SLIME" THEY SECRETE ALSO KEEPS THE SOIL MOIST.