Sundew (Drosera spp ... ensuring a vibrant and pest-resistant environment all summer long. The post 8 Plants That Eat Bugs – ...

With its sticky, translucent tentacles, the Drosera capensis, or Cape sundew ... species eat microscopic prey, such as bacteria; medium-sized plants subsist on insects and their larvae ...

The meat-eating plant should thrive in this habitat and ... which attracts passing insects The sundew's tentacles then tighten around its prey, drowning the insect in the sticky fluid Digestive ...

For Venus flytraps to actually eat insects, he declared ... In 1860, soon after he encountered his first carnivorous plant—the sundew Drosera—on an English heath, the author of Origin of ...

Insect-eating plants are among the 17,000 species which ... Plants including the greater sundew and bog asphodel are now thriving there. Project officer Helen Earnshaw said: "It is exciting ...