Carnivorous plants
Have you ever wondered if carnivorous plants like the Venus flytrap use photosynthesis. Well they do, sort of. They use photosynthesis but cannot make enough due to the unhealthy soil in the harsh climates they live in so they have to eat meat. There are over 600 types of carnivorous plants in the world. the ones I will talk about are Venus flytraps, pitcher plant, bladderworts and sundew. And also sorry to spoil your fun, but piranha plants don't exist. Must be a good day for Mario.
The first plant I will tell you about is the Venus flytrap. It has two leaves shaped like a mouth. Inside the mouth are sensory hairs. When the sensory hairs are touched by insects the mouth closes. The more an insect tries to struggle the more the mouth will close. Poor insect.
The first plant I will tell you about is the Venus flytrap. It has two leaves shaped like a mouth. Inside the mouth are sensory hairs. When the sensory hairs are touched by insects the mouth closes. The more an insect tries to struggle the more the mouth will close. Poor insect.
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The next plant I will tell you about is the pitcher plant. It is basically a pitfall trap....... of death. It is shaped like a cup and attracts bugs with sweet nectar. They come to the very top of the plant and look for nectar and slip of the edge to the bottom which is full of water that the bugs drown in. The plant then realise digestive acids to consume the insect. Some fun facts are that some spiders and frogs live in the plant. They wait for something to fall into the plant and when the prey is weakened they go in for the kill. Pretty convenient.
Bladderworts are up next. They live underwater and catch water fleas or other creatures by first attracting them with their smell. When the prey gets close enough, a trap opens and water rushes in, carrying the prey along with it. It's all over in about 1/30 of a second. That's some fast food.
Next is the sundew. The sundew has sticky drops covering it's stem which attracts prey. Once the prey lands on the drops it gets stuck. The sundew then curls up and digests the insect.
Other plants are the Dewy Pine which is like a sundew and the lobster pot trap which is like the pitcher plant.That's it for this blog see you next time.
It was good. You kind of sounded like a textbook. What is with the thing at the end?
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Good pics and spelling but sume grammer mistakes B+
ReplyDeleteThe blog was pretty good! Didn't sound like a textbook! ~A
ReplyDeletePretty good. It sounded a litle bit like a textbook. Overall, it's a B+
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