the venus flytrap is a small plant, with small leaves. its clam-shaped leaves look rather like flowers, and so they attract insects. when they are open, they are red and smell sweet. they have stiff hairs on each edge. inside the leaves, there are very sensitive, tiny hairs which cause the leaves to snap shut when they are touched. two hairs must be touched to make the leaves close. this makes it more likely that the thing that touched its hair is living.then it secretes juices to digest the insect