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Have you ever heard of a carnivorous plant? The a pitcher plant is one example of a meat- eating plant. It consumes insects for food.
How dose the pitcher plant catch bugs?The leaves of this insect-trapping plant are about six inches long. These pitcherlikeleaves gather pools of water when it rain.The smell of the plant attracts unsuspecting insects.They lamd on the top of a leaf and walk toward the bottom. They seem to be searching for the source of the smell.
Each leaf of the pitcher plant is lined with many hairs that point toward the bottom of the plant.As long as the insect continues to walk down into the plant,all goes well.The moment it tries to walk back up the leaf,it is stuck by the sharp hairs pointing downward.To avoid pain,the insect keeps walking down.Soon, there are no more hairs-only the steep and slippery sides of the leaf.Eventually,the insect loses its footing and slips into the pool of water at the bottom and drown.