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Bog
... they can't get from the nutrient-poor bog. The sticky red hairs of the small sundew hold, then fold over an insect's body and slowly digest it. Insects slide down the slippery hairs of the pitcher plant into a cup filled with rain water and ... veins, downward-pointing hairs, landing pad for insects, and cup to drown them. The Venus fly-trap of North and South Carolina has trigger hairs that ...
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Stinking Flowers
... pointing hairs in the floral tube prevent the gnats from climbing out. During their incarceration the gnats receive rations of nectar. Several days later, when the anthers release pollen, the jail hairs wilt ... The putrid-smelling starfish flower (Stapelia gigantea) is flesh-colored and covered with soft white hairs. It attracts flies and maggots to the central orifice where the male and female ...
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Carnivorous Plants
... Nepenthes of the Nepenthaceae, where an insect falls into a vase-like modified leaf. Downward-pointing hairs on the slippery walls prevent the insect from crawling out, and the hapless victim ... the plant. Their escape is blocked by rows of special inwardly-pointing hairs which line the slits. Glands between the rows of hairs presumably secrete digestive enzymes, and the inviting entrances are ...
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Darlingtonia californica, Carnivorous Plants Online - Botanical Society of America
... sectional view of Figure 8, it's in trouble. Sharp downwardly-pointing hairs, which here merely look like glistening areas, prevent the insect from ... out of the seed pods on dry windy days, and the hairs on the seeds, by increasing the surface area, permit the seeds ... while because air bubbles get trapped among the hairs. If they are floating, the hairs may aid the seeds in catching on debris along ...
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Sarracenia, Carnivorous Plants Online - Botanical Society of America
... the fly does succeed in passing above that waxy zone, it is confronted with downward pointing hairs (Figure 4) in zone 1 (Figure 3), again preventing escape. Eventually the exhausted fly succumbs ...
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Sarracenia - Home Page
... descend inside the pitcher they invariably lose their grip and fall into the trap. Downward pointing hairs further in the pitcher further hamper the insects escape, eventually they die and enzymes secreted ...
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Ceiba Foundation - Tamanduas: A Vested Interest In Ants
... . All anteaters have extremely long tongues, some up to 60 centimeters long! Equipped with backwards pointing hairs, and coated with gooey saliva, the tongue is used to scoop up ants and termites ...
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Sarracenia purpurea
... Sarracenia purpurea Sarracenia purpurea 15 centimetre / 6 inch ruler for scale Downward pointing hairs keep insects from crawling out of the pitchers Carnivorous plant which grows in acidic peat ... forest. The leaves form tubes (pitchers) which fill with rain water to trap insects. Downward pointing hairs on the inside of the of the pitchers allow insects to enter, but deter them ...
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"Coastal Carnivores" Carnivorous Plants: Cultivation Tips: Sarracenia
... , so the walls close in on the hapless insect. Not only that, but sharp, downward pointing hairs force the insect to enter further into the pitcher in hopes of escape. Backing up ...
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"Coastal Carnivores" Carnivorous Plants: Cultivation Tips: Darlingtonia
... are similar to Sarraceniain that it consists of a hollow tube, complete with the downward pointing hairs. The opening is quite small, and insects that are lured to the plant have the ...
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