7 Insect-Eating Plants You Must See: Nature's Carnivores

Zee Media Bureau
Aug 14, 2024

Venus Flytrap

The Venus Flytrap traps insects and slowly digests them to obtain vital nutrients by snapping shut its jaw-like leaves.

Pitcher Plant

This plant, which resembles a deep pitcher, entices insects with its honey. Once within, they are unable to exit and sink to the bottom in digestive secretions.

Sundew

Sundews entice insects with their delicious, dew-like secretions and then wrap around them to digest their meal. They are covered in sticky hairs with gland tips.

Butterwort

Butterworts catch insects on their surface with their sticky, glandular leaves, then release digestive enzymes to help break down and absorb the nutrients.

Bladderwort

Aquatic and quick-moving, bladderworts feature microscopic bladder-shaped traps that, by a vacuum-like mechanism, draw in prey in milliseconds.

Cobra Lily

With its hooded form, this plant resembles a cobra. Insects are trapped in its tubular leaves, where the digestive enzymes finally cause them to drown.

Monkey Cup

The Monkey Cup, a kind of pitcher plant, entices insects with its nectar-filled cup, where they land and the plant's enzymes break them down.

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