Carnivorous plant catapults prey with snap-tentacles: Biologists describe new capture mechanism

Carnivorous plants feature complex mechanisms to survive in habitats poor in nutrients: trapping systems help them to lure, catch, kill, and digest small prey animals (mainly insects) and to take up the resulting nutrients. Traps that move are termed 'active', and such active systems are currently being investigated. Researchers show for the first time the trapping action of the particular sundew Drosera glanduligera.

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