It's Alive Plants

Fairly bad pitcher traps triumph in the end

Fumbles pay off in pitcher plants’ lax ant hunting strategy

Three pitcher plant traps

DRY MOUTH  When the lips of pitcher plants’ traps are dry, ants can swarm over them without slipping in.

 

U. Bauer

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

Incompetent, says who? Carnivorous pitcher plant traps rarely catch much, but their lackadaisical hunting turns out not to be so lame after all.