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 ...

It shows just how brilliant nature is with insects-eating wonders to the mimicking ... challenge our understanding of what being a plant means. The sundew plant uses sticky tentacles to attract ...

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 ...