1. Carnivorous Plants

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

5. Spatulate-leaved Sundew
Drosera intermedia

7. Bladderwort

8. Horned Bladderwort Utricularia cornuta

9. Butterwort Pinguicula vulgaris

10. Waterwheel Plant Aldrovanda vesiculosa

11. Old World Pitcher Plants
Nepenthes rajah

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

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

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

15. New World Pitcher Plants

16. Sarracenia

17. Sarracena purpurea

20. Venus Flytrap

21. Dioneae muscipula