<Tr> <Td> The species produces small, shiny black seeds </Td> </Tr> <P> The plant's common name refers to Venus, the Roman goddess of love . The genus name, Dionaea ("daughter of Dione"), refers to the Greek goddess Aphrodite, while the species name, muscipula, is Latin for "mousetrap". </P> <P> Historically, the plant was also known by the slang term "tipitiwitchet" or "tippity twitchet", possibly an oblique reference to the plant's resemblance to human female genitalia . </P> <P> Most carnivorous plants selectively feed on specific prey . This selection is due to the available prey and the type of trap used by the organism . With the Venus flytrap, prey is limited to beetles, spiders and other crawling arthropods . In fact, the Dionaea diet is 33% ants, 30% spiders, 10% beetles, and 10% grasshoppers, with fewer than 5% flying insects . Given that Dionaea evolved from an ancestral form of Drosera (carnivorous plants that use a sticky trap instead of a snap trap) the reason for this evolutionary branching becomes clear . Whilst Drosera consume smaller, aerial insects, Dionaea consume larger terrestrial bugs . Dionaea are able to extract more nutrients from these larger bugs . This gives Dionaea an evolutionary advantage over their ancestral sticky trap form . </P>

Where are the only two places venus flytraps can be found in the wild