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What do insect eating plants produce in order to trap and digest insects?
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∙ 14y ago
Insect eating plants normally have modified leaves in order to trap insects - such as the "trap" in the Venus Flytrap, the "pitcher" of a Pitcher Plant and the sticky hair covered leaves of a Sundew.
What they all have in common though is the ability to produce digestive enzymes in order to break down the insect body and facilitate digestion of contents the insect; the exoskeleton is not digested.
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∙ 15y agoIn fact, insects provide nitrogen to the predatory plants in addition to some other nutrients.
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What is frass in English dictionary?
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Insect-eating nepenthes are important because of their symbiotic relationships. Some insects live their whole lives unharmed in the pitchers of the nepenthe plant.
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moths, , flies, crickets, grasshoppers, planthoppers, leafhoppers, ants, assassin bugs, spittle bugs, cicadas, dragonflies, termites, stink bugs, and beetles
Are monkeys insect-eating mammals?
yes becase when they pick through the fur of their mates they are eating the lice or other insects imbeded in their fur
