{"id":597444,"date":"2019-03-26T14:35:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T18:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9fc4fa4eb69ccf19f5c3c3ab8ace002b"},"modified":"2019-03-26T14:35:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T18:35:50","slug":"venus-flytrap-teeth-form-a-horrid-prison-for-medium-sized-prey-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=597444","title":{"rendered":"Venus flytrap &#8216;teeth&#8217; form a &#8216;horrid prison&#8217; for medium-sized prey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;Testing Darwin&#8217;s Hypothesis about the Wonderful Venus Flytrap: Marginal Spikes Form a &#8216;Horrid Prison&#8217; for Moderate-Sized Insect Prey,&#8221; Alexander L. Davis investigates the importance of marginal spikes, the &#8220;teeth&#8221; lining the outer edge of the plant&#8217;s snap traps, in successfully capturing prey. He found that Venus flytraps experience a 90 percent decrease in moderate-sized cricket prey capture success when marginal spikes are removed. This effect disappears, however, for larger prey, suggesting that the spikes may provide a foothold for large prey to escape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;Testing Darwin&#8217;s Hypothesis about the Wonderful Venus Flytrap: Marginal Spikes Form a &#8216;Horrid Prison&#8217; for Moderate-Sized Insect Prey,&#8221; Alexander L. Davis investigates the importance of marginal spikes, the &#8220;teeth&#8221; lining the outer edge of the plant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597445,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597444\/revisions\/597445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}