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Carnivorous Plants Use a Smelly Trick to Catch Their Prey

Por: The New York Times Science April 22, 2023

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Pitcher plants supplement their diets with this one strange trick: . Usually found growing in relatively poor soil, the plants sprout pitcher-shaped cups with pretty, frilly tops that obscure their true purpose: trapping hapless insects. Look inside the pitchers and you’ll find the half-digested bodies of the plants’ victims.How do insects wind up in this unenviable situation? Do they just, , fall in by accident? While studies suggest that... + full article



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