The next time you see an insect on a plant, watch closely. It may be that plant's lunch!
A fly lands on a Venus flytrap. It touches the flytrap's very small hairs twice in less than a second, the flytrap closes. There is no time for the fly to escape. After the flytrap closes, the teeth make a cage.The flytrap slowly eats the insect over the next 10 days then it opens again. It's ready to catch its next meal!
An insect wants something to drink. It lands on this beautiful Australian sundew the "water" sticks to the insect, and it can't escape. Slowly, the plant covers the insect with a liquid, the bug slowly dies.
What That's that nice smell? Insects like the smell, too, so they land on this pitcher plant. It's slippery and the bugs fall in inside of the pitcher plant is slippery so the insects cannot climb out. Slowly,the plant kills them.