Pitcher Plants

A pitcher throws a variety of pitches from the mound. He or She may throw a fastball, knuckleball, screwball, changeup, etc.... He or She may throw the ball fast or slow. Each pitch requires a different movement by the pitcher that the batter and others may not notice. When the ball is in play the pitcher is responsible for backing up the other players on many of the bases. The pitcher is needed for a back up play mainly at home plate. The pitcher's main responsibilities are to help back up the bases, stop runners from coming home, and try to strike out the batter.

All of them are "carnivorous" plants. Each captures insects and digests them to provide nutrition to the plant.

Note that some bladderworts only capture tiny organisms such as protozoa and rotifers, but others have substantial enough traps that they also capture (and digest) water fleas, tadpoles, fish fry, and mosquito larvae.

If a pitcher plant is cared for the plant will live for several years. The plants are carnivorous plants.

Its stem looks like a pitcher and holds liquid. The liquid traps unwary insects which drown and provide food for the plant.

It became carnivorous because it was getting insuffecient energy from photosynthesis, or it simply didnt evolve as fast as other plants, no one knows for sure.

Bogs In the southeastern United States.