{"id":1470,"date":"2016-06-09T04:51:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T10:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/108.61.91.43\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2024-06-10T13:14:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T19:14:04","slug":"venus-flytrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/09\/venus-flytrap\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Flytrap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1471 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_6141-e1465980905755.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6141\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Luxembourg City, Luxembourg<\/p>\n<p>On our walk around Luxembourg, we went \u00a0to the Natural History Museum, there we sat and relaxed for a little bit. \u00a0While there I noticed some Venus Flytraps and was looking at them when Marlies came over and explained how they work. \u00a0It is quite amazing!! \u00a0When an insect or spider crawls onto a leaf and touches one of the tiny hairs, the trap closes and they are then inside and the plant consumes them. \u00a0I found on Wikipedia; that only after a second hair is contacted within twenty seconds of the first hair being touched, is the trap triggered, this saves energy on objects that have no nutritional value. \u00a0Nature is wonderful!!<\/p>\n<p>June 2016<\/p>\n<p>Photo taken with an iPhone 5s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luxembourg City, Luxembourg On our\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/09\/venus-flytrap\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-luxembourg-thru-my-eyes","category-plants-thru-my-eyes","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5075,"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/5075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}