Carnivorous Plants

I went to http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Stories/ and I read this great article about carnivorous plants. It tells how meat-eating plants us tricks to lure insects into their traps. For example the pitcher plant, a insect want to get a drink so they slide in and then the pitcher plant closes it's lid and digests the bug. Also the Venus Flytrap snaps shut when a bug lands on it, and a bug is glued down and digested when it lands on a Sundew.

But my favorite plant is the bladderwort. It's a little plant that grows in a lake and snatches up larvae in 1/50 of a second and is the fastest killer in the plant kingdom. It captures it's pray by waiting until a bug swims by then opens a trap door and grabs it then closes the door before it can get out. That's what I read about carnivorous plants and I recommend reading the stories on the National Geographic web page.