What If You Were Trapped in a Meat-Eating Plant?

Nature has many lethal predators that would love to eat you. Most of these are animals. But what about plants? Well, there's one plant that thrives in boggy areas and has a taste for insects, The Venus Flytrap. So what would happen, if a giant one trapped you? Could you survive? How long would it take to be fully consumed? Do Venus Flytraps actually like the taste of humans?

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[stolencomics]

1:08
male: *FINALLY SHE AGREED TO COME OVER TO MY PLACE*
Venus flytrap: *YOINK*

[RickOps]

What If there was no What If?







Well that sounds like a story for another What If

[SciFactsYT]

Random fact: Armadillos have shells so hard they can deflect a bullet.

[duchi]

If I was swallowed by a Venus Flytrap




It'd just spit me out because I'm trash

[harrsshhit]

i lowkey feel sad for my crush. she'd get eaten real quick ugh. she's a snacc.

[nabonggi]

Welcome to another episode of
"this situation might never happen, but if it does, you probably won't survive"

[navetwizer]

What if the corona virus will not disappear soon?

[Sumirevins]

People in 1970: I couldn't imagine what people would be doing in 50 years

Me in 2020: Watching what if flytraps would eat you and random meme Videos😐

[dragonfury]

Short answer: We die

Long answer: A collective group of humans such as us shall all perish in the green yet strong and quick grip of the swamp inhabiting, insectivorous plant specimen Dionaea muscipula, or more commonly known as the Venus Flytrap

Edit: i made it longer lol

[man_on_wheelz]

Safe to say the venus flytrap could never be big enough to eat a person since something that big would need to eat something as big as us often enough to maintain those nutrients you mentioned. Side-note, it would probably take more than the 12 or so days to digest us cause regardless we are huge and that's a lot for a plant to digest... that thing would be happily nibbling on us for probably a month at least.

[colenye]

"Feed me Seymour!" 🤣 little shop of horrors, first thing tht came to mind when seeing this lol

[Alexis-dlxc]

The cover photo isn’t even a Venus fly trap. It’s a Nepenthes. I’d be very interested to see what would happen with that plant considering the digestive system is different.

[ADistantWail]

Instead of a succulent nectar to lure insects, the man-eating fly trap lures humans with a simple dollar bill on a string.

[sandrafacebook]

it's so interesting how we see these tiny plants and think of them as nothing interesting but when you do closeup shots and analyse them it turns out they are very interesting... and it's true for most things, that's why I love watching documentaries on literally anything

[blackpink]

"What if you were swallowed by a Venus flytrap ?"
Me: *Let me guess we will Die* 💀

[ohstal]

*looks at Venus flytrap in my room*
“Don’t even think about it buddy”

[Sparky]

Girls with Photoshop: Omg I'm gonna make me look cute

Boys with Photoshop : this thumbnail

[anabanananaa]

He said that the Venus flytrap gets its nutrients from the soil mainly but they live in highly acidic soil devoid of nutrients so that is why they evolved to eat insects

[MathswithMuneer]

How do you guys have time to do all this research when you’re literally posting everyday?

[SweeneyDunston]

I personally liked the first thumbnail better. But definately go with what works best to get the best CTR. Keep up the great work, team!