Deadly for bugs, perfect for bat naps

Interior of carnivorous pitcher plant is a daytime refuge for nighttime hunters

Batman’s not afraid of some little old meat-eating plant. He naps in its death traps.

GIMME SHELTER For a daytime roost, a Hardwicke’s woolly bat (left) can slide partway down inside one species of pitcher plant’s dangling, insect-catching leaves (right). Ulmar Grafe

For a daytime roost, both male and female Hardwicke’s woolly bats wedge themselves partway down the throats of vase-shaped leaves that capture insects for a vining species of carnivorous pitcher plant, says tropical ecologist Ulmar Grafe of University Brunei Darussalam in Gadong.