Venus flytraps are rare — and protected. A thief dug up 200 of them, NC officials say
A North Carolina man caught Saturday with more than 200 Venus flytraps is in jail for taking the protected plants, according to a wildlife official.Archie Lee Williams Jr., who planned to sell the carnivorous plants, had about 216 of them, WECT reports.”They were all fresh,” said John White, master officer with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, in a phone interview with McClatchy. “They still had moist dirt around the roots. They had not wilted yet.”Officers say […]
