There are several types of meat-eating plants, but the pitcher plant is the hungriest of all. It catches its prey using a brilliant booby trap – a deep “pitcher”, or jug-shaped container, filled with digestive juices that dissolve any animal that falls inside. sliPPery rim Unlike the Venus flytrap, the pitcher plant doesn’t have moving parts that can grab prey. Instead, it attracts passing insects and other animals with sweet-smelling nectar and bright colours. The “pitcher” parts of the plant have very slippery edges. When an animal steps onto them, it slips inside, into a deep vat of deadly liquefying chemicals. The slime around the rim, along with grooves or downward-pointing hairs inside the pitcher, make it almost impossible for trapped animals to climb back out. meat-eating monsters Some pitcher plants grow big enough to hold more than 3 litres (5 pt) of liquid, and can trap and kill animals, such as frogs, large spiders, and even mice and rats.

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