When an insect touches the bristles on the lobes of a Venus flytrap, the lobes close quickly, engulfing the insect. The movement of the insect inside the lobes causes the flytrap to secrete digestive enzymes that kill the insect. Which type of relationship does this describe?
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Venus fly trap is a carnivorous plant which is endemic to sub tropical wet lands on the east coast of the united states in North and South Carolina. It gets its pray by the trapping structures composed by the terminal portion of the leaves. When an insect slide along the leaves associates a hair, the trap assembles to close and the insect gets trapped inside then the plant derives the nutrition by digesting the insect by releasing the digestive enzymes. This process describes the parasitism. Parasitism may be defined as the relationship among species where one organism lives on the other organism. Here the plant Venus fly trap lives on the insect causing the insect to die. Hence the relationship is described as parasitism. Therefore the correct answer is Parasitism.
The answer is Predation.
Here the Venus fly trap acts as the predator of the insects.
The Venus fly trap is one of the carnivorous plants and it is found in the wetlands of North and South Carolina in United States.
The scientific name of Venus fly trap is Dionaea muscipula.