INSECTIVOROUS

PLANTS
 INTRODUCTION

• There are many types of plants on our

planet. This is about Carnivorous
Plants
• Insects are the most common prey for
most Carnivorous plants. That is why
they are also called as Insectivorous
Plants.
• There are 9 types and 600 species of
Insectivorous Plants.
 HABITAT
• The most common habitat for these
plants is in bogs and fens, where
nutrient concentrations are low but
water and sunshine seasonally
abundant
 DIET
• The diet of insectivorous plants consists of
frogs, small mammals and insects.
• Insectivorous plants absorb nitrogen from
its prey
• These plants are eating insects because they
don't get enough of nitrogen from the soil
and to regulate the amount of nitrogen they
eat insects.
 TYPES OF TRAPS

Insectivorous plants are

mainly categorized by the
type of trap they have,
They are:
Pitfall Traps
Flypaper Traps
Snap Traps
Suction Traps
Lobster-Pot Traps
PITFALL TRAPS-PITCHER
PLANT
• It is having modified leaves
known as pitfall traps
• The leaves are folded into
deep slippery pools
• The pools are filled with
digestive juices
• When an insect sits in the
leaf the plant closes the lid.
The digestive juices digest
the insect.
PITFALL TRAPS-COBRA LILY
• The cobra lily has an opening
on the bottom .
• It attracts prey by its colorful
leaves that emit a honeylike
scent.
• The pitcher top is set with
countless glassy windows,
light illuminates its interior
and makes it so very
appealing.
• Once insects enter the pitcher,
they are in serious trouble
because the escape route is
hard to find.
FLYPAPER TRAPS-SUNDEWS

• Each leaf has little tentacles

with sweet but very sticky
nectar/dew that attract insects
• The insects get stuck, the more
they move, the tighter the
tentacles stick/wrap around
them and they eventually
suffocated and then get
digested.
• Sundews are having flypaper
traps
SNAP TRAPS-VENUS FLYTRAP

• Venus flytrap is having snap

traps
• The leaves of Venus' Flytrap
open wide and on them are
short, stiff hairs called trigger
or sensitive hairs.
• When anything touches these
hairs enough to bend them,
the two lobes of the leaves
snap shut trapping whatever is
inside.
• The trap will shut in less than
a second.
LOBSTER POT TRAPS-CORKSCREW PLANT

• Corkscrew plant are small herbs

with yellow flowers that make
use of lobster pot traps
• The traps are twisted into
cannels lined with hairs and
glands
• These plants have two distinct
types of leaves – photosynthetic
leaves above ground, and
specialized underground leaves
to attract, trap and digest minute
organisms, like protozoans