Carnivorous Plants Kill Bugs

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In bog environments, the soil is still water logged and an oxide, there is no oxygen. This slows down decomposition of all the plant matter that's making fog. And so it actually is a nutrient por situation. These particular plants in these places have developed different mechanisms to find other sources of nitrogen. They use like esy attractons to bring in insects. So they need some bugs to help carry their pollen. Yet, do they ever get a bogo? Do they ever do like a two for one o?

Flesh hungry plants. The world’s fastest hunters. Botany with brains? Seymour, it’s time to feed because we’re doing meat-eating plants with conservation ecologist and carnivorous phytobiologist, Hali’a Eastburn. Can a Venus Fly Trap digest human flesh? Do frogs think of pitcher plants as home or hell? How fast is a bladderwort? Are scientists anesthetizing plants? Why exactly DID they name a fly trap after the goddess of love? Also: homicidal plant tattoos, nature’s grossest vending machines, and what plants are most goth with a pair of real #bogbitches.

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Donations were made to North American Sarracenia Conservancy and Kauluakalana