(27 May 2025)
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Carolina Beach, North Carolina – 22 March 2025
1. Close up of a hand examining carnivorous plants during a hike in Carolina Beach, North Carolina.
2. Wide shot of the entrance sign to Carolina Beach State Park
3. Wide shot of Jesse Anderson leading the carnivorous plant hike UPSOUND (English) Jesse Anderson, Park ranger:
"I’m gonna teach you about kind of the the actual plants along the way and some of the Important stuff that that leads to carnivorous plants thriving here ."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jesse Anderson, Park ranger:
"Venus flytraps only found within 100 miles of Wilmington, nowhere else in the world, right? And they’re really important because they, you know, that they are a symbol of of really healthy longleaf pine ecosystems and a healthy ecosystem that that has seen a natural cycle of fire ."
5. Wide shot of the Flytrap Trail sign at Carolina Beach, highlighting the starting point of the carnivorous plant hike.
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jesse Anderson, Park ranger:
"The hike is is generated or directed to teach about the habitat first and then, kind of explore the carnivorous plants that inhabit it."
7. Wide shot of Park Ranger Jesse Anderson talks to visitors during tour UPSOUND (English) Jesse Anderson, Park ranger:
"The trap will actually open back up , and the exoskeleton or what’s left of the insect will just dry out and eventually blow away in the wind ."
8. Mid shot of a park ranger watching visitors during tour
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jesse Anderson, Park ranger:
"Venus flytraps are active year round, but in the winter time, they go dormant just like any other plants, so their temperatures are colder, they’re a little less likely to, you know, eat insects, so they, they definitely slow down, but they’re still present in the landscape."
10. Mid shot of a park ranger explaining pitcher plants to a group of visitors UPSOUND (English) Jesse Anderson, Park ranger:
"Those are pitcher plants, like a drinking pitcher, they have a deep tube."
11. Close up of pitcher plant in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, during a hike UPSOUND (English) Jesse Anderson, Park ranger:
"They don’t bite at all, no."
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jesse Anderson, Park ranger:
"Venus flytraps, in the leaf itself, have a couple trigger hairs, right? So the trigger hairs are sensitive to touch, just like a a sensitive plant would be, and those trigger hairs after one is triggered, it starts a timer of about 20 seconds, and in that 20 seconds if the insect or spider, trap, triggers another one of those hairs, the trap then closes shut and will trap the prey."
13. Close up of Venus flytraps
14. Wide shot of park ranger talking to visitors looking for Venus flytraps SOUNDBITE (English) Jesse Anderson, Park ranger:
"So tiny, low to the ground, need lots of sunlight, and again it’s just starting to warm up, so, you know, in a couple more weeks they’ll be a lot bigger."
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Jesse Anderson, Park ranger:
"Venus flytraps are protected by the state of North Carolina, it’s actually considered a felony to remove Venus flytraps from the land. So, you know, they’re heavily protected because they’re so sought after, you know, there has been many cases where those felony prosecutions have gone through and, you know, it’s really important that we keep them, they’re only in 12 counties in North Carolina, so really important that we keep them on the landscape and continue to educate people about them."
16. Wide shot of hikers gathering on a boardwalk during the carnivorous plant hike at Carolina Beach, North Carolina.
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