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🌞CARNIVOROUS PLANT POLL-Cape Sundews:🌞
💧🍬Leaves have sticky, sugary droplets to lure and trap prey2
☠️Traps insects, extracts nutrients, but leaves exoskeleton behind0
🍃Leaves move in response to touch, an example of "thigmotropism"2
⚡Electrical signals called “action potentials” guide tentacles0
🦟Tentacles can sense what’s alive (fly), what’s not (dried leaf)5
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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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