In Pictures

Plant Carnivory

A closer look at the traps, glands, and hard-won meals of carnivorous plants.

A wasp captured by a Venus flytrap
A wasp meets its match in the jaws of a Venus flytrap.
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Plant Carnivory by Michael Murray — book cover
Venus flytraps in cultivation
A Venus flytrap growing in a bog
A mature Venus flytrap beside younger plants
Venus flytrap trap anatomy: nectar glands, trigger hairs, digestive glands
Close-up of the digestive glands inside a Venus flytrap
A Venus flytrap that has caught a daddy longlegs
A sundew (Drosera) growing in a bog
A fly trapped on a sundew's sticky tentacles
A sundew leaf curling around captured prey
A butterwort (Pinguicula) rosette
The peduncular glands along a butterwort leaf
A butterwort digesting an insect on its leaf
A Sarracenia pitcher plant among wildflowers
Sarracenia pitcher plants in a bog
Sarracenia pitchers and flowers at sunset
A wasp on the rim of a Sarracenia pitcher
A wasp at the mouth of a yellow Sarracenia pitcher
A wasp at a Sarracenia pitcher
Looking down into a Sarracenia pitcher full of trapped insects
A Sarracenia pitcher opened to show digested prey
Nepenthes anatomy: lamina, tendril, and pitchers
The pitcher (trap) of a Nepenthes
Nepenthes pitcher anatomy: operculum, peristome, and insect ladder
The peristome ringing the mouth of a Nepenthes pitcher
Digestive fluid pooled inside a pitcher
A spider being digested inside a pitcher
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