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Carnivorous Plants

Carnivorous Plants ~600 species Why are the plants carnivorous? Sundews Pitcher plants Bladderworts Butterworts Why are the plants carnivorous? Why do the victims fall for it?

Nitrogen-poor Habitats Why? How do the plants attract prey? Fate of the prey Acidity and enzymes Is escape possible? Other plant-insect relationships Ants swim in to steal prey Habitat for mosquitoes, craneflies, and frogs?

Sundews, Drosera sp. Round-leafed Sundew Thread-leaved Sundew Drosera rotundifolia Thread-leaved Sundew Drosera filiformis

Spatulate-leaved Sundew Drosera intermedia

Bladderwort

Horned Bladderwort Utricularia cornuta

Butterwort Pinguicula vulgaris

Waterwheel Plant Aldrovanda vesiculosa

Old World Pitcher Plants Nepenthes rajah

Nepanthes sp. May use hood as a raindrop triggered trapdoor. N. bicalcarata N. gracilis May use hood as a raindrop triggered trapdoor.

Catches leaf litter & debris as well as insects Nepenthes ampullaria Catches leaf litter & debris as well as insects

Nepenthes lowii Lid secretes copious sugary crystals that attract tree shrews who then defecate into the pitcher

New World Pitcher Plants

Sarracenia

Sarracena purpurea

Venus Flytrap

Dioneae muscipula