Having fire ants in your house seems pretty no bueno. Is this a common hazard in some places?
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sprite0@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
the venus fly trap contains small hairs inside of the mouth. It requires two hairs being triggered at the same time to ‘chomp’. The chomp action is biologically expensive so the plant can’t afford to do it until a proper sized meal will get digested and it will gain net energy.
It also precludes smaller animals with strength from just walking out of the mouth.
The plant did nothing wrong this is just a silly owner!
blackbrook@mander.xyz 5 days ago
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yes. They are an invasive species in much of the American South (and beyond).
StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
Speaking for us living in Alabama, cockroaches, fire ants, and scorpions are the reason most of us happily pay for pest control services.
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 5 days ago
I know that it’s probably a sign of impending ecological doom, but where I live used to have scorpions coming in all the time. I don’t think I’ve even seen evidence of them outside for close to a decade. I guess I can appreciate the silver lining of the giant mushroom cloud.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Fire ants are not uncommon in the American south, but I don’t know if they’re especially likely to invade homes.
merde@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
if you call “a few seconds” interval “at the same time”, yes
“Flytraps show an example of memory in plants; the plant knows if one of its trigger hairs have been touched, and remembers this for a few seconds. If a second touch occurs during that time frame, the flytrap closes.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_flytrap
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
That was an amazing read, thanks. Crazy to think that the entire wild population os native to a 100km area