Killer Plants
Most animals eat plants - but did you know that some plants eat animals?
1.There are more than four thousand species of carnivorous plants
2.Carnivorous means animals or plants that eat meat
3. At least ten of killer plants are native to new zealand
Why are some plants carnivorous
1. All plant use light energy from the sun to turn water and carbon dioxide into food.
2. The process is called photosynthesis
Venus Flytrap Plants?
1.Venus flytrap plants have bright green leaves whose halves are joined like shells.
2.When a fly lands on one half of the leaf and touches the hairs the two parts of the leaf snap
shut.
Pitcher Plants
1. Pitcher plants are plants that look like jugs
2. When a insect crawls down in the pitcher plant, but then disaster strikes the pitcher plant has slipper walls so, so the insect slips and struggles,
3. When the insect slips it falls into this liquid then it drowns and digest
Sucked In
1.A group of underwater plants called bladderworts trap their food in a small enclosed pocket ( or “bladder” ).
2. This an be as tiny as a pinhead or as big as your little fingernail
3. New zealand has several native bladderworts, which live in bogs and wetlands
A Sticky Situation
1. Most of new zealand's carnivorous plants belong to the sundew family.
2. These plants trap their prey using sticky hairs , or tentacles of the surface of their leaves
3. When a insect becomes trapped, these tentacles curl around it, preventing it from escaping.
Would they eat me?
1. A scientist, curious to know whether plants could digest human flesh, once fed his venus flytrap a tiny piece of his skin. Sure enough the plant digested it!
2. Fortunately for us, most carnivorous plants are tiny, and they’d have problems trapping anything larger than an ant.
3. Some larger plants have been known to trap and digest creatures as big as frogs,mice, lizards and even small birds.
