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Those spines create a 'cage like structure' to enclose its pray in. When a fly enters one of the Venus Flytrap's trigger mouths, the cage closes in on the fly and slowly digests it over the course of around 10 days.

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The 'spikes', or cilia, are there to prevent the trapped prey from escaping after it is caught. They interlock with their counterparts on the other side when the trap closes.

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The small spikes inside the "trap" of the plant are the actuator hairs, once a fly or small insect has moved these a few times the "trap" is activated and closes on the insect.

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for eating insects and it gets its food from oxygen (other insects )

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