Once insects enter the pitcher, they are in serious trouble because the escape route is hard to find. Meanwhile, the pitcher tube downwards is very easy to find, indeed! (As Sir David Attenborough would say.) The pitcher tube is slick and adorned with downwards-pointing hairs. The prey plummet downwards and to its doom. The pitcher base is filled with fluid. No digestive enzymes have been detected in this plant; it apparently relies upon bacteria and commensals to do its digestion for it.