Pitcher Plant

Food

Eating Process

life span

facts

Ants

flies

Butterfly

wasps

Insects:

beetles

Tropical Pitcher plants live for many years, often ranging from 10-20 years. The plant can take 5-10 years to flower and it will have new shoots growing each year that turn into rosettes.

Some insects and animals live harmoniously with pitcher plants. Some predators, like spiders, use the lid to hide under, and some insect larvae, like mosquitoes, live inside the pitcher plant itself.

Ants that die inside the plant are used for their decaying scent to attract other prey

Flap closes after the insect comes

Sometimes small frogs will hide in pitcher plants, eating flies that are attracted to the plant.

Insect is absorbed.

flap open till the insect comes

what are pitcher plants

Pitcher plants are several different carnivorous plants that have modified leaves known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid. The traps of what are considered to be "true" pitcher plants are formed by specialized leaves. The plants attract and drown their prey with nectar.