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Carnivorous Plants
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Carnivorous Plants

• Carnivorous Plants If an animal eats a plant, it
  is of no particular interest but when a plant
  eats an animal, that is of  interest.
• The fact that there are few flesh-eating plants
  make them fascinating and interesting to everyone.

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The Venus Fly Trap

• The Venus Fly Trap is the most well known species
  of carnivorous plants.

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• These insectivorous plants lure their prey using
  a sweet smelling nectar. When an insect lands on
  the head of the fly trap, they seek the source of
  the nectar, and if the plant is lucky, it will
  touch one of the many trigger hairs located
  within the jaws of the trap.

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• Once triggered, the trap snaps closed, trapping
  the victim.

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• The plant then secretes an enzyme which
  essentially 'dissolves' the insect, turning it
  into a digestible dinner.

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• After a few days, the fly trap will re-open, to
  await it's next victim.Yummmmm!

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Pitcher Plant or Fly Catcher
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• The inner part of these beautiful pitchers are
  covered with stiff hairs and are half-filled with
  a liquid.

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• The insects are attracted  by the beautiful
  flower and the sweet fluid.  The hairs on the 
  inner surface of the pitcher allow the insect to
  travel down but they prevent its traveling upward
  and out. 

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• Therefore it continues downward into the fluid
  where it drowns. The plant absorbs the soft parts
  of the  body and the skeleton  remains in the
  bottom of the pitcher.

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• Pitcher plants are often found with many
  skeletons hidden inside.

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Look inside a pitcher plant!
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What do you see?
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These are the parts the pitcher plant doesnt eat.
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Do you recognize any of the parts that are left?
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Take a look inside of the pitcher plant.
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Pitcher plants in North America live almost
exclusively in bogs, wet meadows, or pine
savannahs, and wetlands.
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Sun Dew
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•  Small insects, such as gnats are attracted by
  the beautiful dew-like substance on the leaves of
  this plant.

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• Once they have come  in  contact with this sticky
  substance, however, they cannot escape.

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• After a short time the leaf slowly folds,
  completely  encloses the insect and digests its
  body.

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Bladderwort

•  In the springtime the prairies are carpeted in
  the  yellow flower of the bladderwort. This plant
  lives in shallow waters and  swamps of the
  Southeast.
• The leaves have small air sacs or bladders in
  which minute water creatures such as larvae, 
  nematodes, water  fleas, protozoa, and small
  worms are trapped. 

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• Each bladder has a small opening through which
  the tiny animal can enter but cannot escape.

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• Each bladder has a small opening through which
  the tiny animal can enter but cannot escape.
• Eventually the trapped  organisms die and their
  bodies decompose  forming the nitrogenous food
  for the bladderwort.

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Sites for Kids on Carnivorous Plants

• Carnivorous Plants PPTs Great Site for Kids
• Carnivorous Plants Great pictures
• Chomp! Meat-Eating Plants
• Plants for Kids
• Venus Flytrap and other Weird Plants
• Facts About Carnivarous Plants
• Plants Carnivorous
• The Carnivorous Plants Website

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