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Plants That Eat Their Prey

Plants That Eat Their Prey By Radhika Hitkari The plant's trap snaps shut on insects by sensing two touches on trigger hairs within 20-30 seconds, ensuring it only closes for real prey. This rapid snapping is among the fastest plant movements. Venus Flytrap They trap insects and sometimes small frogs/mice by luring them into deep pitchers with slippery, waxy surfaces. Pitcher Plants They have sticky, glandular tentacles with droplets that ensnare insects. These tentacles can bend toward captured prey to enhance trapping and digestion. Sundews Use sticky leaves covered with glandular surfaces to trap and digest small insects. The lubrication and digestion process is similar to sundews but slower. Butterworts Aquatic plants that capture tiny prey by rapidly sucking them into bladder-like traps triggered by prey contact creating a vacuum suction. Bladderworts Also known as The Scarlet Witch, Wanda showed off her remarkable combat skills when she single-handedly took down Thanos. Cobra Lily A small-sized pitcher plant with pitchers that trap insects. It's native to Western Australia with moccasin-shaped traps. Australian Pitcher Plant A ground-dwelling, sticky leaved carnivorous plant from dry areas that traps flies and gnats with sticky leaves. Portuguese Sundew Traps insects on sticky leaves but lacks digestive enzymes; instead, it relies on symbiotic bugs to digest the prey and then absorbs nutrients from their excrement. Roridula A South American bromeliad believed to trap insects with water-filled leaf bases and waxy surfaces. It forms an urn that collects water and traps prey. Brocchinia reducta