Carnivorous Plants

This plant known as the cape sundew is a carnivorous plant (or CP) which uses sticky drops of "dew" to trap its victims. You can see 2 little "meals" trapped by the dew in this photo.

In the image, the green "stuff" is another CP - the bladder wort. It eats very tiny insects. To be a CP a plant must do 3 things - attract, capture and digest its prey. Some are active like the more familiar Venus flytrap and the bladder wort which "sucks in" its prey; and some are passive like this sundew and pitcher plants. The sundew actually becomes active when it captures its prey and will slowly wrap its tentacles around its prey. Found this funny picture on google...Yes, i know its becoming more of a picture blog.This is the pitcher plant where insects fall into this" bottomless hole" inside the jug-like structure contains digestive juices which digests everything that fall prey to the plantMoving on to my favourite of all CPs-the Venus Flytrap. Well it snaps when insects lands within its "mouth" and keeps closed untill the prey is totally digested.

The Venus Flytrap is so famous that there are even electronic ones that work like it.

For survival, plants have to adapt and one day,humans will have a way to adapt too.