Carnivorous Plants: Diverse Traps for Insect Capture

Carnivorous plants are unique because they eat bugs.

They live where the soil doesn't have enough food for them, so they trap insects to get what they need.

Some, like the Venus flytrap, snap shut.

Others, such as pitcher plants, have slippery tubes that insects fall into.

Sundew plants use sticky leaves.

Bladderworts suck in tiny creatures, and butterworts use sticky leaves as flypaper.

Cobra lilies have tricky tubes, while the waterwheel plant is a water-based Venus flytrap.

Albany pitcher plants and tropical Nepenthes also trap insects, and the latter can catch larger animals.