How Do Butterworts Catch Prey: To capture and digest their prey, Butterworts (Pinguicula) employ a unique mechanism that resembles sticky fly paper. Its broad, spreading leaves are covered in two...
Category: Other Carnivorous Plants
The monkey Cup is also known as Monkey Jar, and pitcher plants but formally known as Nepenthes. The plant is one of a large family of tropical carnivorous plants indigenous to Southeast Asia,...
A plant that is a carnivore is one that will capture, kill, and digest organisms. Although they usually catch, eat, and digest insects, some larger species can also eat mice, birds, and fish. While...
Pitcher plants are carnivorous, which means that they eat insects and other small creatures. It's a type of plant that uses modified leaves referred to as pitfall traps to trap insects; the traps...
The glistening balls of "dew," material present on Drosera sundew, are known as mucilage. If your Sundew doesn't have any dew on it, you may not be growing it correctly. Low humidity is the most...
Like their more traditional relatives, carnivorous plants do fuel themselves through photosynthesis. In addition to sunlight, water, carbon dioxide, and various elements like nitrogen are also...
