In all, South Carolina has about five dozen official state things.
FILE - A Venus fly trap grows naturally in a Carolina Bay at Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve in Conway, S.C., Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005. Conservationists want South Carolina to make the Venus fly trap the state's official carnivorous plant, joining other official items such as the state bird , state hospitality beverage and the state picnic cuisine .
But supporters said honoring the Venus fly trap isn't about one extra thing students see on an elementary school worksheet.spot on the globe“In a state as small as ours that is growing every day, we have to protect the things that belong here,” said South Carolina Sen.
McElveen said his mom bought him one when he was a kid from the market. He named it"Audrey II" after the ravenous and cruel human-eating Venus fly trap inIn the wild, Venus fly traps are the size of a lima bean and mean no harm to anything other than spiders and flies. They have special hairs that when brushed — twice in succession to reduce the amount of false alarms by dust or rain — snap the leaves shut around the insect.
If the prey continues to wiggle and is too big to escape from between the hairs, the plant releases acid that dissolves and digests the insect and provides nutrients. “This is a plant for South Carolina to be proud of. It is globally rare,” Coastal Conservation League biologist Trapper Fowler told senators.
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