2. They do not eat their prey for energy, they derive their energy from the sun.
3. They use pleasant scents, colourful leaves and sweet nectars to attract insects.
4. Some carnivorous plants can eat rodents and frogs.
5. They are not harmful to humans, in fact it would take weeks for a carnivorous plant to even start of digesting human finger.
6. They don't usually compete on sunlight with other plants.
7. There are about 600 known species of carnivorous plants.
8. May 4th is the soil world carnivorous plants' day.
9. They have their leaves modified into various types of "traps" in order to capture insects.
10. Some have sticky tentacles that once an insect land on it, they wrap the tentacles around it.
11. Some have pitfall traps with water and some digestive enzymes, once insect fall inside it can't escape.
12. Some have their leaves modified into "snap traps". When a bug walk on it, it snap.
13. Some aquatic carnivorous plants have bladder-like traps that sucks insects.
14. Carnivorous plants need insects to pollinate. So, their flowers grow high so that the pollinating insects wouldn't get stuck in the plants' trap.
Examples of Carnivorous Plants
1. Pitcher plant
Pitcher plants capture their prey using pitfall traps. They have pot-shaped modified leaves that contain nectar. When prey is drawn to such nectar, a slippery substance around the rim causes the prey to fall. The wall contain hairs facing downward which prevents it from escaping.
2. Sundew
Sundew uses adhesive tentacles that looks like a nectar or dew droplets, once a prey land on it, it would stick on it and the tentacles would wrap around it and digest it.
3. Venus flytrap
Venus flytraps have their leaves modified into snap traps and the prey is attracted to its pleasant scent and once it land on it and stimulate the sensitive trigger the leaf snap shut and absorb its nutrients.
4. Bladderwort
Bladderworts are rootless aquatic carnivorous plants that have tiny bladder-like structures all over their body. The bladder looks like food substance or shelter. The outside of the bladder have trigger hairs, when swimming insect trigger the hairs, a valve trapdoor opens and sucks or flush it inside. The door is covered with slime to prevent the insect from escaping.
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