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Awesome 8 Carnivorous Plants
Some plants aren’t eaten by bugs—they eat the bugs themselves! Nearly 700 species of these carnivorous plants live throughout the world.
1. Pitcher Plant
All that’s left of unfortunate frogs caught by this plant are little frog slippers—the skin on the frogs’ feet is the only part the plant doesn’t digest.
2. Venus Flytrap
The leaves of the Venus flytrap snaps shut if its tiny hairs are brushed twice by an unsuspecting bug.
3. Yellow Pitcher Plant
The leaves of this meat-eating plant fill with rainwater. Bugs fly in, but they don’t fly out!
4. Cobra Lily
Bugs get confused by the translucent windows in the plant’s leaves. They think they’re escaping, but they’re really flying deeper inside.
5. Butterwort
Butterwort bristles have gluey hairs that snag insects until the plant’s digestive juices do their work.
6. Monkey Cup
Insect larvae feed on the leftovers found inside the cups of these plants.
7. Australian Sundew
Thirsty bugs are drawn to what look like raindrops on the leaves. But the “water” is actually a glue-like substance to trap insects. Talk about a sticky situation!
8. Big Floating Bladderwort
These plants live in the water and trap tiny aquatic animals in their cup-shaped leaves.
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PHOTO CREDITS
PITCHER PLANT, PONGSAK DEETHONGNGAM, DREAMSTIME; VENUS FLYTRAP, KRISGUN01, DREAMSTIME; YELLOW PITCHER PLANT, FILIPFOTO25, DREAMSTIME; COBRA LILY, PR2IS, DREAMSTIME; BUTTERWORT, MONIPHOTO, DREAMSTIME; MONKEY CUP, NIMON THONG-UTHAI, DREAMSTIME; AUSTRALIAN SUNDEW, JENNYVUTURTLE, DREAMSTIME; BLADDERWORT, ALEX SCOTT, DREAMSTIME