planet. This is about Carnivorous Plants • Insects are the most common prey for most Carnivorous plants. That is why they are also called as Insectivorous Plants. • There are 9 types and 600 species of Insectivorous Plants. HABITAT • The most common habitat for these plants is in bogs and fens, where nutrient concentrations are low but water and sunshine seasonally abundant DIET • The diet of insectivorous plants consists of frogs, small mammals and insects. • Insectivorous plants absorb nitrogen from its prey • These plants are eating insects because they don't get enough of nitrogen from the soil and to regulate the amount of nitrogen they eat insects. TYPES OF TRAPS
Insectivorous plants are
mainly categorized by the type of trap they have, They are: Pitfall Traps Flypaper Traps Snap Traps Suction Traps Lobster-Pot Traps PITFALL TRAPS-PITCHER PLANT • It is having modified leaves known as pitfall traps • The leaves are folded into deep slippery pools • The pools are filled with digestive juices • When an insect sits in the leaf the plant closes the lid. The digestive juices digest the insect. PITFALL TRAPS-COBRA LILY • The cobra lily has an opening on the bottom . • It attracts prey by its colorful leaves that emit a honeylike scent. • The pitcher top is set with countless glassy windows, light illuminates its interior and makes it so very appealing. • Once insects enter the pitcher, they are in serious trouble because the escape route is hard to find. FLYPAPER TRAPS-SUNDEWS
• Each leaf has little tentacles
with sweet but very sticky nectar/dew that attract insects • The insects get stuck, the more they move, the tighter the tentacles stick/wrap around them and they eventually suffocated and then get digested. • Sundews are having flypaper traps SNAP TRAPS-VENUS FLYTRAP
• Venus flytrap is having snap
traps • The leaves of Venus' Flytrap open wide and on them are short, stiff hairs called trigger or sensitive hairs. • When anything touches these hairs enough to bend them, the two lobes of the leaves snap shut trapping whatever is inside. • The trap will shut in less than a second. LOBSTER POT TRAPS-CORKSCREW PLANT
• Corkscrew plant are small herbs
with yellow flowers that make use of lobster pot traps • The traps are twisted into cannels lined with hairs and glands • These plants have two distinct types of leaves – photosynthetic leaves above ground, and specialized underground leaves to attract, trap and digest minute organisms, like protozoans