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A flower that eats flies: why it grew so and how it hunts. Variety of predator colors

Everyone knows that plants feed on substances taken from the soil (or other plants), they need water, light and, to most of them, heat. Many people know about the flower that eats flies, and for some reason in the main mass are afraid of it, considering it almost a monster. Meanwhile, predator plants are simply living organisms set by nature in such conditions that they had to survive in an unusual way. Rather, they deserve respect for their love of life and perseverance in evolution. Strictly speaking, the flowers that eat flies are on the same bar, for example, with tigers, who are also not vegetarians. And besides, most of the plant predators differ in amazing beauty.

Why did the predator plants appear?

To become insectivorous, plants had to work hard and grow during the evolution of additional organs and glands to produce the right enzymes. Without such a set, no plant could catch, hold and digest an insect. To maintain the performance of this complex system, a flower that eats flies spends a huge amount of energy. Scientists believe that carnivore becomes justified only when the plant lives in very specific conditions, because some insectivorous flowers have even lost the ability to photosynthesis for the sake of their hunting organs. Such circumstances are soils that are poor in phosphorus and nitrogen. Simply put - bogs. Not without reason all carnivorous plants come from such areas. The loss of the "solar panels" in this case is quite understandable: the plants are not obscured, and they have enough light to extract scanty leaves.

Vulnerability of predator plants

Life led by a flower that eats flies, and in itself is not so simple. The insect, not too well and firmly grasped, is quite able to break out of the trap. And even if it dies afterwards, the plant predator will remain hungry. Plus, the realities of civilization: in the modern world, precisely those qualities that have been developed for millennia can destroy flowers that eat flies. The nitrogen fertilizers washed off the fields and discharges of power plants oversaturate the marsh soil with nitrogen, which also kills plant predators. The second threat from which they can not be protected is poaching. Growing in recent years, the demand for carnivorous plants stimulates adventurers to search for wild venus flycatchers and sell them almost on the roadside. Those copies that remained "in the hands" of the sellers are indifferently thrown away. In addition to all these troubles, the result of land development is the disappearance of the habitat of predator colors. So, it is quite possible that in the next half century they will remain only in greenhouses and home collections.

Snaffle scavengers

In the vastness of our homeland, almost everyone knows only one flower that eats flies. He wears the name "sundew". It is an amazingly beautiful plant, pubescent with thin hairs, which end with droplets of sticky discharge. Insects take them for water; An additional stimulus to their approach is the fragrance of sundew. When the midge is firmly adherent, the leaf starts to slowly fold. Already in a collapsed state, he digests his prey.

How does the woman go hunting?

Another flower that eats flies and is found on Russian open spaces is a poultry. Not very euphonious name, she received for the slime, which is covered with leaves. Thanks to it the surface gleams, as if greased. The mechanism of podmanivaya insects - the smell, the way of use is similar to how the assimilates the sundew sacrifice. Only the leaf does not fold: it is covered with digestive glands. So that hardly a mosquito will stick, it immediately begins to be absorbed.

Venus Flycatcher (Dionia)

It is because of its way of hunting that this flower, which eats flies, is a lion's prey for the poacher. No other predatory plant slams the trap, and moreover so effectively. Given that the leaves on the edge are equipped with denticles, the hunt looks as if a trap is slammed or wolf teeth clicked. Again, the process of digestion is hidden, in contrast to the same Lycorian, so that nervous observers are spared from observing the insects' "sufferings" and needing to sympathize with it. All these features have made the flycatcher a welcome pet for many fans of indoor plant growing. A very large number of those who want to boast that he has a flower on the windowsill that eats flies. The price of some stops, but we can not say that it is so excessive. On average in specialized stores for the Venus flytail asking 600 rubles; However, small copies can be bought and three times cheaper.

By the way, from plants-predators you can buy not only a dione. Sold and non-artisans, and sarracenia, and sundew, and other carnivorous flowers - are sold in the same price range.

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