Fly Traps! Plants That Bite Back

Vocabulary:  Collect: To gather together.  Hinge: A joint on which a cover or lid moves back and forth.  Insects: Small animals without backbone with bodies divided into three parts.  Pitcher: A container for holding liquids.

 Plants: Living things that can make their own food.  Trap: A thing used for catching animals. Other words to know  Bladderwort: Any of the family of insect eating march of water plants.  Carnivorous: Meat eating.

 Chemicals: Substances that can dissolve.  Dissolve: To make into liquid.  Flytrap: Any of several plants that trap insects.

Bladderworts Bladderworts are carnivorous plants that have a bladder with trigger hairs, when a bug touches one of the hairs the bladder opens up and sucks the water in.

Sundew Sundews have leaves with a sticky red substance like honey, when an insect touches the sticky parts, the leaf curls up fast, the bug is dissolved and eaten.

Butterwort Butterwort are carnivorous plants, they have flat leaves like flypaper. Little bugs stick to the leaves and slowly dissolve.

Venus Flytrap Venus Flytraps are plants that have leaves that can open and close because they have hinges, and trigger hairs, when an insect touches some of the hairs, they immediately shut and catch their prey.

Cobra Lilies Cobra lilies are carnivorous plants, they get their names because their shape is like a cobra, when an insect stands on their rim it is very slippery, they fall into a pool of liquid that dissolves them.

Pitcher Plants Rajah Pitcher Plant

 Pitcher Plants get their names because their shapes look like pitchers, they eat in the same way as Cobra Lilies, their surface is very slippery and insects or animals fall into a pool of liquid.