Testing Darwin’s hypothesis about the most wonderful plant in the world: The Venus flytrap’s marginal spikes are a ‘horrid prison’ for moderate-sized insect prey
A. L. Davis, M. H. Babb, B. T. Lee, C. Martin
The paper tests Darwin's hypothesis about Venus flytrap marginal spikes as a 'horrid prison' for prey, finding they increase capture success for moderate-sized prey but not larger ones.
bioRxiv · May 10, 2018Evolutionary Biology