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Saving the Venus Flytrap: How One Woman Rallied a Town Around Its Weirdest Attraction

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In Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina, botanist Julie Moore has dedicated herself to protecting the Venus flytrap from the pressure of encroaching housing development. In her profile, Lindsay Liles explores Moore’s conservation efforts, explains the remarkable mechanics of the flytrap itself, and shows how the plant supports the delicate, narrowly defined ecosystem in which it thrives. This is a plant equipped to kill, and about to kill in re…
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Longreads broke the news in on Friday, November 7, 2025.
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