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The Venus Flytrap, Dionaea muscipula, is a carnivorous plant that catches and digests animal prey-mostly insects and arachnids.
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∙ 7y agoThere are several carnivorous plants - Various pitcher plants, sundew, Venus fly trap, etc. My wife once had a pitcher plant that caught slugs!
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What does a cobra plant eat?
The darlingtonia californica, also known as the cobra plant or cobra lily, eats insects because it's a carnivorous plant. Carnivorous plants eat insects for nutritional reasons.
What are the adaptations of the corpse plant?
they smell like a corpse to attract insects, and the insects pollinate them.
What eats the leaves of a rubber tree plant?
Caterpillars, millipedes, insects
Why are flowers usually colorful and scented?
To attract insects so that the insects can drink their nectar and pick up the pollen o the plant. Te insect will then fly to another plant with the pollen and fertilise it so it can make seeds which make new plants...
Part of a plant to attract insects?
The insects get attracted by the colourful petals and the fragrance.
How does venus flytrap catches insects?
A Venus fly trap catches insect that are attracted to the sweet smell it puts off. They land on the plant and the plant closes around them.
Which godgoddesses lend their name to plant's in our solar system?
There is a plant called "Venus flytrap", named after the goddess Venus. This plant catches small insects.
Do venue fly traps eat anything?
A venue fly trap is a carnivorous plant that eats insects.
Is a bluebird a consumer?
Consumer
Is a Venus flytrap carnivorous?
Yes, the venus flytrap is a carnivore because it consumes any insect it can trap, and those insects provide nourishment for the plant with by way of their meat content. Because it only consumes insects and other tiny bugs some people think that the venus flytrap is a more specialised type of carnivore called an insectivore.
What does an insect catch light do?
Catches insects by attracting them with a light.
How food produced by the plant becomes a source of energy for the bird?
The food produced by the plant is eaten by insects or worms and those are eaten by the birds. So indirectly plant is the main source of energy every animal eats. because worms and insects eat the food produced by the plant and they are later on eaten by birds and birds are eaten by any other animal. So that's how a bird consumes energy from a plant. =)
What is a passive plant?
It is a plant that catches prey without moving.
Is this sentence the bird caught insects so the bird ate insects. Correct?
The bird catches and eats insects. I prefer: The bird is an insect eater. Note: To eat an insect the bird must first catch it, so there is no need to use 'catches' or 'caught'.
What kind of flying insects does the Indiana bat eat?
The Indiana bat eats flying insects, which it catches on the wing.
Where does a tarantula find its food?
The blood of flies and other insects that the spider catches in their webs. Spiders do drink the blood of insects.
What plant grow in peat soil?
Plants that like acidic soil or that rely on other ways of nourishment, like the Sundew, with its sticky leaves, which catches and lives on insects.
