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🌞CARNIVOROUS PLANT POLL-Cape Sundews:🌞

  • 💧🍬Leaves have sticky, sugary droplets to lure and trap prey 2
  • ☠️Traps insects, extracts nutrients, but leaves exoskeleton behind 0
  • 🍃Leaves move in response to touch, an example of "thigmotropism" 2
  • ⚡Electrical signals called “action potentials” guide tentacles 0
  • 🦟Tentacles can sense what’s alive (fly), what’s not (dried leaf) 5
  • 2022-09-10
  • 9 votes
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A hairy starthistle weevil is trapped on a Cape sundew carnivorous plant. (Photo Credit: Josh Cassidy/KQED)

What’s your favorite fact about these carnivorous plants? For inspiration, here is a video about them from our archives: Cape Sundews Trap Bugs In A Sticky Situation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4kBrsyWhS4

Do you have any carnivorous plants? What’s their favorite meal? Let us know in the comments below.

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