From the March 23, 1935, issue
By Science News
FAMOUS INSECT-EATING PLANT CATCHES MANY SPIDERS
Venus’ flytrap might with equal correctness be called a spider trap. This famous insect-catching plant, once called by Darwin “the most wonderful plant in the world,” has been restudied recently by Prof. Robert F. Griggs of George Washington University. He discovered that the largest single class of animals among its victims consists of spiders. Examination of hundreds of its traplike, hinged leaves showed that spiders formed 28 percent of all its catch. Flies were a close second, with 24 percent.