carnivorous plants in action

I’ve had a cou­ple recent posts on insects. While I’ll on the sub­ject it looks like there’s a whole sub­cul­ture of insect snuff films on YouTube. Notice that the “no ani­mals were harmed dur­ing the film­ing of this video” assur­ance appears nowhere on any of these videos… Here are a cou­ple show­ing droseras in action:


You can read up on how the insides of the sar­race­nia pitcher plants are lined with hairs that point down­wards, into “the drink,” mak­ing escape almost impos­si­ble for small insects. Or you can see it for your­self:

And what col­lec­tion of car­niv­o­rous plant videos would be com­plete with­out one show­ing a venus fly­trap doing its thing:

March 31 2008 | Categories: gardening | Tags: • • • • • • • | 1 Comment »