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Insects that fall into the pitchers provide nitrogenous nutrients for the plants which otherwise obtain their nutrients by the process of photosynthesis.

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What plants eat insects?

Carnivorous plants such as Venus flytraps, pitcher plants, and sundews are known for eating insects as part of their diet. These plants have adapted to nutrient-poor environments by capturing and digesting insects to supplement their nutrient intake.


Why do pitcher plants eat insects?

Pitcher plants eat insects as a source of nutrients, particularly nitrogen. These plants typically grow in nutrient-poor soil, so they have evolved to supplement their diet by trapping and digesting insects in their pitcher-shaped leaves. This adaptation allows them to thrive in environments where other plants struggle to survive.


What do pitcher plants eat?

food


Do monkeys eat pitcher plants?

no


Do pitcher plants eat grond beef?

No they only eat insects


How many plants eat bugs?

It's a carnivorous plant that eats bugs. Plants tend to meet their nutrient needs naturally through what's available in the soil. But carnivorous plants tend to grow in nutrient poor and infertile environments. So they meet nutrient needs through the nutrients that are released in digesting protein and nutrient rich bugs.Examples include sundew [Drosera spp], pitcher [Sarracenia spp], monkey cup [Nepenthesspp], flytrap [Dionaea spp], cobra [Darlingtonia spp] and bladderwort [Utricularia spp] plants.


What kinds of bugs eat plants?

A carnivorous plant is the type of plant that eats bugs. Plants such as butterworts and sundews, corkscrews, flytraps and waterwheels and pitcher plants trap bugs in order to meet nutrient needs that are lacking in the poor soils where they generally grow. The first widely-circulated research on the subject of carnivorous plants was Insectivorous Plants by English naturalist Charles Robert Darwin (Feb. 12, 1809-April 19, 1882).


What are plants that eat flies called?

There are many many different types of flys. And for each type of fly there is something different that it will eat from the others. So yes there are fly and fly larva that eat live plants and fly or fly larva that eat dead plants.


Are pitcher plants dangerous?

Yes they will eat you alive! The real answer is no they can not harm you at all.


What type of plants do herbivores eat?

everything except for thistles and fly-eating plants.(except for pitcher plants...mm-mmm.)


Can plants eat insects?

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What are carniorous plants?

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