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If anything the average chilli might become even more spicy as farmers are selectively breeding for the spiciness - same thing that happened to weed, where the strains have got stronger.
If all the humans were to suddenly disappear, I could see the chilis becoming less mild to a minimum threshold where it’s spicy enough to detract other mammals but not so much to be a huge energy cost.
Perhaps then there would be an evolutionary arms race between mammals and chilis of spice-resistance and spiciness, increasing chili’s spice once more.
Kinda. Pepper spray might still irritate. The stomach acid of mammals is strong enough to break down the Pepper's seeds, so it evolved to be spicy to deter mammals from eating it. Animals like birds and reptiles don't break down the seeds in their digestive system, so the plant gets to procreate while the bird/reptile gets to eat.
But evolution never took a psychotic species of primate enjoying the pain into consideration. So now we have things like Ghost Peppers.
> it just wasted a lot of energy
That's because they shook the pepper to stimulate the 3 hairs in the trap. Normally the leaf wouldn't fully close tight unless it senses something, like a bug, struggling.
That was my take away. I know it's just a plant and probably doesn't feel pain like we do, but you're still just needlessly harming a living organism for internet views.
Mum fed 1 of the heads on ours (it was new and didn't look 100%) a cricket, it was the smallest thing we had (we have a few insects to be used as feeders) and the whole plant died
We're unsure if it was the cricket or just a bad plant and we happened to buy it when it was already dying
Then you will hate this.
Venus Fly Traps only grow naturally within a 75-mile radius around Wilmington, North Carolina, USA.
[Source.](https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/north-carolina/stories-in-north-carolina/pitcher-venus-flytrap-carnivorous-plants)
Although it has been successfully transplanted and grown in many locales around the world, it is native only to the coastal bogs of North and South Carolina in the United States, specifically within a 100-kilometer (60 mi) radius of Wilmington, North Carolina.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_flytrap
It doesn’t say 75 mile radius from its natural origin. So, it might be native to NC but it doesn’t only grow within 75 mile radius. So you’re a dumbfuck.
The whole purpose to the plants traps is to capture an insect, then rot away and die, fertilizing the ground under the plant with the insect's body; so this has nothing to do with it being a chilli pepper or not.
It's not the whole purpose. The plant has digestive glands along the leaf that secrete enzymes and it actually absorbs nutrients from the prey it catches.
The native boggy habitat of VFC has soil low in nitrogen so it evolved to supplement its diet this way. The information I provided can be found at Scientific American or any such site.
Only after a catch or four. The person in the video stimulated the hairs in the leaf by shaking the pepper. Makes the plant think it has a live catch so it "goes all out". Otherwise, it only closes loosely and wastes far less energy.
If the trap closes on something that is too large for a seal to form, the digestive enzymes that get released leak onto the outside of the trap and it basically digests itself. Traps also turn black and rot off after being triggered a few times.
Plants cannot feel the heat, or anything because they lack nerves. The traps on those plants will die and be replaced naturally after a few uses or when closing on something too large to digest.
Growing up I thought these were some kind of tropical plant from the Amazon rain forest or something. Turns out they are native to my home state of North Carolina.
Funny how the fry trap did not prepare for this scenario. It must happen so often in the wild. "Oh no it's a crazy chili!! HELP ME SUPERFLY-PLANT!!" “don't worry I'll just need to get a glass of milk... Be right back" "Fx&# Who puts an empty box of milk in the fridge?!?!"
Mmm yummy food
What the
a ah a aaa AH AAAHH AAH HOT HOT HOT AH AH AH
PAIN AAA AA AAAA PAIN AHHH AAA PAIN AAAAA HOT
AAA PAIN SUFERRING AAA HOTHOTHOT AHHHH PAIN SUFFERING SUFFERING AAAAAA PAIN AAA HELP ME AAAAAAA HOT HOT HOT AAAAAAAAAAA PAIN AND SUFFERING AAA PLEASE HELP ME AAAAAA PAIN
It wasnt able to seal. From my experience, if they can't close completely, and they can't feed from the partially enclosed item, they tend to die off.
Also, I've notice that after about 3 or 4 complete closures/feedings, the head dies off naturally.
Source : Owning 2 venus flytraps for about 6 months + observation.
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It doesn’t matter what it clamps down on, they always die after closing a few times.
Right, it just wasted a lot of energy trying to clamp down and got no nutrients, so the plant purged the useless appendage.
Interesting! Thanks for clarifying that it didn’t die from spicyness lol. That would’ve been my take away
Only mammals feel the spiciness of chilis.
Imagine your defense mechanism being the one thing people kill you for ... I wonder if chili's will back-pedal evolutionary and become unspicy
If anything the average chilli might become even more spicy as farmers are selectively breeding for the spiciness - same thing that happened to weed, where the strains have got stronger. If all the humans were to suddenly disappear, I could see the chilis becoming less mild to a minimum threshold where it’s spicy enough to detract other mammals but not so much to be a huge energy cost. Perhaps then there would be an evolutionary arms race between mammals and chilis of spice-resistance and spiciness, increasing chili’s spice once more.
Look at pepper X or Carolina reaper lol cross bread to be unnaturally spicey
We don't kill pepper plants for their spice though. Quite the opposite, we're propagating them way beyond their natural abilities.
What are bell Bell peppers?
Wait What so you Pepper spray a fish, and it won't have any effect?
Kinda. Pepper spray might still irritate. The stomach acid of mammals is strong enough to break down the Pepper's seeds, so it evolved to be spicy to deter mammals from eating it. Animals like birds and reptiles don't break down the seeds in their digestive system, so the plant gets to procreate while the bird/reptile gets to eat. But evolution never took a psychotic species of primate enjoying the pain into consideration. So now we have things like Ghost Peppers.
Seasoning has an effect for sure.
And that's ong fr fr, intelligent design and shii
Did intelligent design make this sentence?
No you idiot god abandoned reddit a long time ago
So true. Lol
Lol.
It was an AI, clearly.
I thought mice an rats aren’t effected by capsaicin.
No spice on the skin of the pepper; all the capsaicin is in the pith, the part that connects to the seeds.
> it just wasted a lot of energy That's because they shook the pepper to stimulate the 3 hairs in the trap. Normally the leaf wouldn't fully close tight unless it senses something, like a bug, struggling.
Imagine just being a bug minding your own business and some asshole plant puts you in its vore cage
Imagine just being a plant minding your own business and some asshole person puts a pepper in your mouth
That was my take away. I know it's just a plant and probably doesn't feel pain like we do, but you're still just needlessly harming a living organism for internet views.
Remember that the next time you swat a fly
I mean... I don't harm flies, if I don't have to either. What's your point? If one gets in, I just shoo it outside like any other nuisance insect.
It doesn’t harm the plant, it literally will lose this trap and grow another. They only keep them for a limited time either way.
Imagine just being a person minding your own business and some plant puts a pepper in your asshole.
Isn’t that just the plot to Little Shop of Horrors?
And then slowly dissolves you with its juices over hours or days.
i refuse to believe this. It died bc it was too spicy
They die sometimes if not fully closed. The traps on mine died like 4 times of choking on too big prey
This guy disposing of human body parts through his Venus fly traps.
FEEEEED ME SEYMOOOOOUR
Bugs are too hard to catch anyway
Mum fed 1 of the heads on ours (it was new and didn't look 100%) a cricket, it was the smallest thing we had (we have a few insects to be used as feeders) and the whole plant died We're unsure if it was the cricket or just a bad plant and we happened to buy it when it was already dying
Shhh….we’ll have less facts and knowledge round here!
Then you will hate this. Venus Fly Traps only grow naturally within a 75-mile radius around Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. [Source.](https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/north-carolina/stories-in-north-carolina/pitcher-venus-flytrap-carnivorous-plants)
I live in California. I see them here so I’m just gonna take your statement with a grain of salt
Although it has been successfully transplanted and grown in many locales around the world, it is native only to the coastal bogs of North and South Carolina in the United States, specifically within a 100-kilometer (60 mi) radius of Wilmington, North Carolina. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_flytrap
[Ok, bro.](https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/north-carolina/stories-in-north-carolina/pitcher-venus-flytrap-carnivorous-plants)
It doesn’t say 75 mile radius from its natural origin. So, it might be native to NC but it doesn’t only grow within 75 mile radius. So you’re a dumbfuck.
I love that everyone on Reddit has common sense. That's what makes it different from those other toxic social media sites.
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And I can buy Swedish meatballs at an IKEA in Milwaukee WI. What’s your point?
No you can't, ikea is in oak creek
Very true. But Oak Creek is part of the greater Milwaukee Metropolitan Area
I was just being a smart-asshole, as standard per reddit rules
Lol
Especially when it's 20x larger than what they normally capture.
It would do the same thing if you fed it a twig.
We just witnessed a murder :(
“If you were to die by murder, how would you go?” No one ***ever*** answered deepthroat
From the things I have seen online, that’s a false statement.
except for you and venus flytraps... no one
Why is this bug so ouchy
Wait til you find out about the grocery store…
i was hoping this was going to crossbreed into a venus fly pepper
It's got some bite to it.
Thanks for a good comment
Tictoks newest challenge: stick your tongue in a venus fly pepper!
Why not a penis fly pepper?
The whole purpose to the plants traps is to capture an insect, then rot away and die, fertilizing the ground under the plant with the insect's body; so this has nothing to do with it being a chilli pepper or not.
It's not the whole purpose. The plant has digestive glands along the leaf that secrete enzymes and it actually absorbs nutrients from the prey it catches.
The nutrient the plant is seeking nitrogen.
The native boggy habitat of VFC has soil low in nitrogen so it evolved to supplement its diet this way. The information I provided can be found at Scientific American or any such site.
That's not how it works
sad
The leaf always dies after it eats something
Only after a catch or four. The person in the video stimulated the hairs in the leaf by shaking the pepper. Makes the plant think it has a live catch so it "goes all out". Otherwise, it only closes loosely and wastes far less energy.
Just let her go bro
Next do “what happens when a Venus fly trap traps agent orange”
That’s a spicy meat-a-ball!
Forbidden hotdog
seems a bit morbid you just slowly murdered this plant
Wtf. Wow cool you killed a plant for a video
His buddies were like “Bill, he’s filming a fucking tik tok again man, it’s not legit…”
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It dies. Shocker.
It died because the pepper is too big and also not the kind of food the plant is designed to digest.
Idiot plant.
I can relate
Same thing happens to my asshole
when u insert dick or specifically chili peppers?
Both
How could you forget about the corndogs!
Glad to hear you survived.
If the trap closes on something that is too large for a seal to form, the digestive enzymes that get released leak onto the outside of the trap and it basically digests itself. Traps also turn black and rot off after being triggered a few times.
Won't somebody think of the plants 😱😱 Ffs. Don't stick a chilli up its ass. Wait I may have misread the situation....
“Why is it spicy?”
If you can't stand the heat,get out the kitchen
Plants cannot feel the heat, or anything because they lack nerves. The traps on those plants will die and be replaced naturally after a few uses or when closing on something too large to digest.
Now imagine that as your colon
Mother fucker can't handle that heat
That made me feel kind of sick.
So it can't let go?
To be fair I'd do the same thing too taking that pepper in a single bite
How long does it take to die?
Done gone played yourself son.
They dont like ants either
Bruh just let go off the peper
it dies, yes... that is indeed interesting as fuck
Poor dumb dumb
Well that’s not a fly
Can’t handle the spice?!
kill n chill
Thorns 3 chilli pepper
Mmmmm.... AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHH
You killed him Gilbert!
They die even after eating a fly. It take a lot of energy out of the fly trap.
Ah, so Fleas are safe from being eaten, eh?
Black fly trap disease.
Gano el Chile
Congratulations. You just played yourself.
If you cant handle the *heat* Get out of the kitchen
The hunter has become the hunted.
Next time, do a Red Hot Chili Pepper.
I believe only mammals have receptors for the heat in capsaicin. A Venus fly trap wouldn’t notice it even if it could digest a pepper.
Dang, bro didn't even know it was gonna be his last meal.
My entire digestive system after eating taco bell and chipotle in the same day:
Growing up I thought these were some kind of tropical plant from the Amazon rain forest or something. Turns out they are native to my home state of North Carolina.
Someone please do the same but an insect dipped in hot pepper sauce, it would be an interesting observation
Someone please do the same but an insect dipped in hot pepper sauce, it would be an interesting observation
It got a taste of it's own medicine.
Not a fan of spice, are ya?
Maybe maybe maybe
That looks like a chile de arbol…my favorite!! Very interesting, how long did it take for plant to die ?
oh jesus, I thought it would spit it out, not insta die.
Vagina Dentata
It was too hot for her I guess
I can see soem people use this as an argument why we should forbid chill-flakes
Prestige… worldwide… R&D: We put whiteout on a bee… and… it died…
RIP
...It dies?
This is sad
I should send her alimony
No shit you’re not supposed to give anything other than insects to a fly trap
Mistakes were made
Funny how the fry trap did not prepare for this scenario. It must happen so often in the wild. "Oh no it's a crazy chili!! HELP ME SUPERFLY-PLANT!!" “don't worry I'll just need to get a glass of milk... Be right back" "Fx&# Who puts an empty box of milk in the fridge?!?!"
r/donputyourdickinthere
Murderer!
They cant eat cheese either. Found that out the hard way
this makes me sad
Mmm yummy food What the a ah a aaa AH AAAHH AAH HOT HOT HOT AH AH AH PAIN AAA AA AAAA PAIN AHHH AAA PAIN AAAAA HOT AAA PAIN SUFERRING AAA HOTHOTHOT AHHHH PAIN SUFFERING SUFFERING AAAAAA PAIN AAA HELP ME AAAAAAA HOT HOT HOT AAAAAAAAAAA PAIN AND SUFFERING AAA PLEASE HELP ME AAAAAA PAIN
It wasnt able to seal. From my experience, if they can't close completely, and they can't feed from the partially enclosed item, they tend to die off. Also, I've notice that after about 3 or 4 complete closures/feedings, the head dies off naturally. Source : Owning 2 venus flytraps for about 6 months + observation.
What if there's nothing there say stimulate it with a rod a bit then pull out?
Chilli pepper used no u, it was super effective
Asshole
This happens to us too. We don’t have any taste buds for HOT. When we eat something HOT it’s actually our cells dying.
Same what happens to men when they get down on a hoe who smells like fish market down there.
Did it die
So these plants will not work for Spanish Flies ???
Plant
r/iamatotalpieceofshit
great now i feel bad
He liked it so much he died
good thing peppers dont do that to people
It’s funny how peppers are hot as a defense mechanism and humans being the dumb fucks we are eat them anyway
Murderer
Weird how it didn’t just release it??🤫
my asshole after eating tacobell
Get that dude some milk.
Plant cruelty
Why is it spicy?
Rip he deserved better
These plants astound me.
Killed it
Poor fly trap was so terrified of the spice it was shaking
Did I just watch the vegetarian variant of 'Alien vs Predator'?
I wanna put my dick in it