Bloodthirsty plants!

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Venus fly traps and waterwheels

spring traps of the plant world
1996
Describes the physical characteristics of these carnivorous plants and how they trap and digest their insect prey.

Sundews

a sweet and sticky death
1996
Introduces these carnivorous plants by describing their traps, plant types, diet, and nutrient-poor habitats with the consequent benefit of carnivory.

Pitcher plants

slippery pits of no escape
1996
Introduces these carnivorous plants by describing their traps, plant types, diet, and nutrient-poor habitats with the consequent benefit of carnivory.

Butterworts

greasy cups of death
1996
Introduces these carnivorous plants by describing their traps, plant types, flowers, diet, and nutrient-poor habitats with the consequent benefit of carnivory.

Bladderworts

trapdoors to oblivion
1996
Introduces these carnivorous plants by describing their traps, plant types, diet, habitat, and possible use against the cane toad plague in Australia.

Carnivorous mushrooms

lassoing their prey?
1996
Introduces some varieties of fungi that eat eel worms, describing the damage these tiny worms cause to both plants and animals and the different ways that the fungi trap their prey.
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