Plant Food
All plants need a kind of salt to live. Some plants do not get all of this salt through their roots. So what do they do? They trap bugs and eat them to get the salt! I don’t think bugs would be good to eat. But some plants do. The plants do not eat the way animals do.
The sundew plant has long leaves. They are covered with thin, sticky hairs. I think hairs look funny on a plant. The plant draws bugs to it by the way it looks and smells. When a bug sticks to a hair, the other hairs go over the bug. It can’t get away! Slowly, the sundew plant eats the bug.
A flytrap plant also has hairy leaves. I think the flytrap is smarter than the sundew. A fly lands on the hairy leaves to look for food. Then the leaves come together and grab the fly. If you ask me, a fly must be very silly to land in a flytrap!
Flytrap plants are the kind I like to watch the most. I think all plants should know
how to eat a fly or a bug.