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Like an animal the pitcher plant eats insects

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Look at all the ants slipping into the pitcher plant. I think it is because the inside is very slippery.

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Spiders some times hide in the plant to get the insects when they fall into the plant.

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They can even eat a whole frog!

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The pitcher plant can eat whole of mouse.

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when the pitcher plant sucks

the juice out of insects it opens

and the juice forms liquid and

the insect floats to the top.

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Pitcher plants can come in different sizes and textures.

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Pitcher plants come in a range of colours including green and red.

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Some picture plants atract insects with there necture and smell of the acid

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pitcher plants dont like red crab spiders red crab spiders take insects out of the

pitcher plant

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Pitcher plants catch insects by luring the insects toward them with a

sweet smelling liquid acid.When the insects get into the trap,the plant

then snaps the lid shut,and eats them.

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A pitcher plant is always patient to catch insects

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The pitcher plant

evolved because

it found eating

small insects

gave it proteins

soil couldn't.

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Meat eating pitcher

plants belong to

two large families

called the

Nepethaceae and

Sarraceniaceae.

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Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants whose prey-trapping mechanism features a deep cavity filled with liquid known as a pitfall trap

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there are up to 76 pitcher plants over

the world

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pitcher plants can catch people

SO WATCH OUT!

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when the insect gets trapped

the pitcher plant sucks the juice

out of the insect.

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here is a giant pitcher plant

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the insects that fly into the pitcher plant gets captured from getting stuck in its stomach.

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a pitcher plant grows more leaves from its stem to produce a giant pitcher plant

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The fluid in the bottom of the

pitcher is a mixture of rainwater

and an enzyme containing plant nectars.

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The insect drowns in the liquid inside the pitcher

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The liquid in the bottom of the pitcher plant is a bit like our stomach acid

which is why it can dissolve the insects that fall into it

This helps the plant get what it needs to live that it can't get from the ground.

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They drown the insect, and the body of it is gradually dissolved.

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Pitcher plants growing in a bog in Pennsylvania.

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pitcher plants eat insects likes flys

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The Albany Pitcher Plant is the only member of the Australian genus Cephalotus.

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Some pitcher plants are so big
they can trap and drown a rat.
Here is a video from David
Attenborough:

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BBC Nature - Tropical pitcher plants videos, news and facts

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Tropical pitchers are cunningly carnivorous plants that lure prey into pitfall traps.

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When pitcher plants tasted insects for the first time,they liked insects more than the soil because the insects had more protein.

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After trapping insects the pitcher plant slowly dissolves their bodies to make a soupy meal

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They are very attractive to insects because of the sweet smelling juice in their mouth.

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The pitcher trap evolved independently

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Some predators, like spiders, use the lid to hide under

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Here is a pitcher plant

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Pitcher plants are kind of like venus fly traps that trap insects

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They are awesome plants.

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They are full of liquid in the bottom of their pitchers.

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The pitcher plants attract prey with their aroma.

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The name pitcher plant originates from the fact that their tubes look like pitchers.

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Pitcher plants are carnivorous.

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Pitcher plants feed on insects that slide into their pitcher-shaped leaf structures and get stuck.