Carnivorous Plants

This kind of trap is pretty much what it sounds like, a pitfall. Most of these carnivorous plants resemble a cone with its broad side up, almost as a funnel. Lightly filled with a nectar-like liquid it lures its prey into the funnel and then uses different techniques to keep it there. Some carnivorous plants confuse invading insects by letting light show through making it impossible to find the exit and some have what you might called a barbed exit, making it impossible to escape. The prey will eventually tire and fall down into the liquid that actually works as stomach acid, breaking it down to nutrients which then are collected by the plant.

The flypaper trap, as with the pitfall trap, is just what it sounds like. Sticky mucus produced on its leaves ensure small insects to stick. Then there are different methods to keep the prey at bay. Most carnivorous plants of this type use an ability known as rapid growth which means that the leaves can turn or overgrow the caught insect in just a matter of minutes; some even has tentacles that will tip over and hold its prey fixated until it is dead and ready to extract the nutrients from its prey.

Snap traps work very much as the common rat trap and is the most widely depicted carnivorous plant of all time because even its flower looks scary with two large petals stretched out opposite one another from the top of stem. Trigger hairs on the insides of the petals tell the plant when an insect is inside and the carnivorous plants flower then snaps shut in an instant. The petals then grow together, forming a stomach, and dissolves its prey. The

Appearing like a little stomach, the flower of this carnivorous plant is more or less the most advanced construction in the plant world. Trigger hairs on top of the flower makes it open and through an ingenious construction actually suck its prey inside. No more needs to be said about this kind of carnivorous plant because the digestive system works pretty much as the pitfall trap.

Lobster-pot traps works pretty much as the pitfall trap but has the form of a capital “Y”. The two arms are filled with inward-pointing hairs that forces the carnivorous plants prey further down towards its stomach at the bottom of the “Y”. Some sorts of these carnivorous plants are believed to even have small water channels that force the insects further downwards. It is believed that the water is being pumped through a similar system as the bladder trap induce its suction