Carnivorous Plants

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Imagine that you're a a fly. You're just zipping around the sky, looking for a place to rest, then, you see a nice pink leaf, that looks like a nice place to land! You land, but you realize the leaf is hairy, you start moving out, when, "PAW" Something traps you!

According to the little text we just read, what is that nice pink leaf we are talking about?

• A carnivorous plant named Venus Flytrap

• An animal who's pink and kills us

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• A flower where a very big predator see and attacks.

A Venus Flytrap traps _____ _________ to eat

What is a reason these plants are carnivorous?

• They thrived in poor-nutrient soil, so they adapted to eating bugs for survival

• They want to taste the bugs

• They do not like to produce their own food

• They do not get a lot of sunshine They do not get a lot of sunshine

There are over 700 species of carnivorous plants in the world, including the Large Pitcher plant. The linings of most pitcher plants are covered in a loose coating of waxy flakes which are slippery for insects, causing them to fall into the pitcher. Once within the pitcher structure, digestive enzymes or mutualistic species break down the prey into an absorbable form for the plant.

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According to what we saw about Large Pitcher plants, what happens after the insect or frog falls into the pitcher?

• Digestive enzimes break the prey down, so the plant could eat him in its way.

• The preys start to get slippery, so they fall into another hole, where a frog lives in.