Active
Snap trap
The trap fires in milliseconds. Two touches to the sensitive hairs and the lobes snap shut faster than the insect can react.
Dionaea · Aldrovanda · Utricularia
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Capture mechanisms
Three ways to hunt
Passive
Pitcher trap
Pitchers fill with digestive fluid. Insects fall in, lured by color and nectar, unable to escape the slippery walls.
Nepenthes · Sarracenia · Heliamphora · Cephalotus
Adhesive
Sticky tentacles
Glistening mucilage droplets mimic morning dew. Insects get stuck while tentacles slowly curl around their prey.
Drosera · Pinguicula · Brocchinia
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