Carnivorous Plants

 Carnivorous Plants

Some plants that capture insects, spiders, and mites as food required for there survival are known as insectivorous or carnivorous plants. Most of these plants live in wet areas where soil doesn't have much nutrients. They derive nutrients from their prey and some of the nutrients available in the soil. Some carnivorous plants are -

 Pitfall traps of Pitcher plants - Also known as Pitcher plant, looks like a pitcher-shaped vessels with a fluid. It attracts insects by its sweet fragrance and when they come to drink it, they become drowned into it.

Flypaper traps of Sundew plants - Flypaper traps have sticky substance on which the pray gets caught.

Snap traps of Venus flytraps - Here, the plant have mouth-like leaves that shuts slowly when an insect or spider lands in it.

There are some water traps inside the water, are known as Water wheel trap

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