insects abundant in wet environments. Carnivorous plants without prey to catch still grow, but such starvation can inhibit special functions like flowering. Plant carnivory is such a successful strategy that it probably evolved about six times, creating widespread genera and families by the beginning of the Tertiary period (right after the dinosaurs’ demise). Now a diverse group of more than a dozen genera and 600 plant species are considered carnivorous. The many different forms that plant carnivory embodies greatly delayed botanists from accepting all variants as true carnivores.