4 DEADLY Carnivorous Plants

Here are four ingenious ways carnivorous plants catch their prey.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2011) Ultra-fast underwater suction traps.
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Current Biology (2016) The Venus Flytrap Dionaea muscipula Counts Prey-Induced Action Potentials to Induce Sodium Uptake
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Scienceline: How Does a Venus Flytrap Work?
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International Carnivorous Plant Society
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Original Footage
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Keep an Eye on this One/Another
Walk in the Park
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Bladderwort Footage
Courtesy Philippe Marmottant

Venus flytrap catching a fly
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Cape sundew engulfing an insect
Francis Chee/Science Photo Library

Bladderwort Traps Prey Light Microscope
Thierry Berrod/Science Photo Library

Spider Trapped in Pitcher Plant
James H. Robinson/Science Photo Library

Sundew Fly Trap Plant
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Dead Insect Inside Pitcher Plant
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Sarracenia Judith Hindle (4753019871)
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Sunset in the Peat Bog (15684909747)
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AldrovandaVesiculosaHabit
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ByblisLinifloraHabitus
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Darlingtonia californica ne8
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Uk pond bladderwort2
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N. andamana
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Ile de Mahe - Plantes carnivores (3)
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Common Bladderwort (3629436369)
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Common Bladderwort
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Drosera rotundifolia leaf1
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Drosera Capensis eating a fruit fly
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Pitcher Plants
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Sarracenia leucophylla
Flickr/Aaron Carlson

Sarracenia ‘Boob Tube’ x open-pollinated
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Sarracenia oreophila x purpurea
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Pitcher Plants..lots of them!
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IMG_1757
Graeme Scott

Terrestrial shrew remains examined in

Nepenthes attenboroughii by Dr Alastair S Robinson
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Venus Fly Trap Eating Compilation Scott's Revenge On The Caterpillars
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Dionea in action
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Cockroaches
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Shuffling Cards
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Wink
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Nord analog howling wind storm
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Sniff
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Flying Mosquito
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