Are Carnivorous Plants Eating Us?

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Vaper harneves plan is food for those little, tiny fruit flies. They all suit you like moths and to e to grasshoppers and shew their way out. Yoy're very like opportunist. Tats i tine, whatever calls in o within a feet. In the tropics, the pitter frants there grow up trees and trellis of trees,. And may havs of big pittures of thing that hang off of them which will come che em out. That iat the bones? Do they eat the bones? Not that i have nothing of the ensines to digest bone, but they do have ensines to digestion i ous

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