Question

What are insectivores plants

Answer 1

Plant species specialised in trapping and consuming insects and other smaller creatures are known as insectivorous plants. There are many such plant species found in nature. These plants develop bright coloured leaf modifications of different shapes for luring, trapping, and digesting tiny creatures. Modified leaves may look like a pitcher, a flower with nector oozing out and like. The sensitive hairs present on these structures are activated at each catch to prevent any scape.

Insectivorous plants are of common occurrence in marshy and also in extreme desert conditions where soils are deficient nutritionally. Protein rich diet of insectivorous plants helps them to grow fast under very poor soil conditions.