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“eat” plants
Just a minute of focused thinking about how it was possible for plants to decide to stop feeding through their roots in the soil and take their nutrients from captured insects and small invertebrates as prey would be enough to make us understand the extraordinary nature. devolution. It’s a radical change, maybe not comparable but comparable to the fact that animals decided to develop some kind of root system instead of eating, at least unthinkable! But it is precisely the power of plants and their nature, an extraordinary capacity for adaptation that has led them to survive for billions of years on our planet, having overcome any event that has occurred there.
insectivorous plants
The plants that “eat”, although the term is not in the classic sense, are the so-called carnivorous plants, which would be better defined as insectivorous, since in more than ninety-nine percent of cases it is to eat. insects. They are the result of an evolution that led them to assimilate nutrients through the digestion of insects instead of absorbing them from the soil through the roots. The capture methods are very interesting: there are “legged” trap plants, i.e. with two lobes which close when they detect the presence of the insect, or “legged” trap plants. funnel”, that is to say with degenerated petals on a single curved surface of elongated cylindrical shape which traps the insect which has a narrow shape and then contains a sticky liquid. After catching,
Catch insects in the house.
Carnivorous plants can easily be used to catch annoying insects that wander around the house and prevent them from resting due to their buzzing and stinging; we are specifically talking about mosquitoes and flies. Plants will surely be able to attract and eliminate them, but a consideration must be taken into account: a carnivorous plant, after eating a fly, can go up to two weeks without eating because it will surely need at least a week to digest it . and reopen it. This means you need to have a large number of plants to cover all the time with no gap of days or weeks to digest and regenerate. Not only,