Re[2]: Digestion

From: BREWER__CHARLES@ecomail.damneck.navy.mil
Date: Fri Aug 08 1997 - 13:33:45 PDT

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Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 16:33:45 -0400
From: BREWER__CHARLES@ecomail.damneck.navy.mil
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
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Subject: Re[2]: Digestion

     Dave,
      I was thinking, might the vft absorb some minerals from the shell of
     the bug it digests?.
                      Charles Brewer
                      Va Beach, Va

> Does anyone know if a dionaea (Venus fly trap) absorbs everything but the
> outer shell of a fly? It seems that way when you squeeze a digested insect.
> There is not much left inside the shell.

  Yep. The plants can't digest the exo-skeleton, but all the
soft parts are washed out and (hopefully) absorbed.

Dave Evans

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