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Carnivorous Plants

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The tiny and beautiful flower of Round Leaved Sundew [Drosera rotundifolia]
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The sticky tentacles of Round Leaved Sundew [Drosera rotundifolia]. North Central, Pa. 6-26-22
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Carnivorous plant the Round Leaved Sundew [Drosera rotundifolia] having caught a Deer Fly [I can only hope that what it is!]. Coos County, N.H. 7-12-21. Notice the sticky tentacles are drawing the prey into the plant.
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Round Leaved Sundew [Drosera rotundifolia], carnivorous plant. North Central Pa.6-27-21
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Round Leaved Sundew [Drosera rotundifolia],Carnivorous Plant.Tioga County,Pa.7-3-20
Tiny beautiful flower of the carnivorous plant Round-leaved Sundew [Drosera Rotundifolia] Schuylkill County,Pa.7-26-19
Northern Pitcher Plant [Sarracenia purpurea].Carnivorous plant.Notice how the hairs around the lips are facing down-to keep prey from getting out once it falls into the pitcher.The pitchers are filled with water that has enzymes for dissolving prey that may fall in.Tioga County,Pa.6-15-19
The beautiful flowers of the Northern Pitcher Plant [Sarracenia purpurea].Tioga County,Pa.6-15-19
Northern Pitcher Plant [Sarracenia purpurea].Carnivorous plant.Notice how the hairs around the lips are facing down-to keep prey from getting out once it falls into the pitcher.The pitchers are filled with water that has enzymes for dissolving prey that may fall in.Please also notice the beautiful new pitchers coming up and Pitcher plant flowers.Tioga County,Pa.6-15-19
Carnivorous plant Round-leaved Sundew [Drosera Rotundifolia].Tioga County,Pa.6-15-19.If you look close you can see insects "stuck" on the sticky leaves.In the last picture also seen growing with young pitchers of a Northern Pitcher Plant also a carnivorous plant [Sarracenia purpurea]
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Round-leaved Sundew [Drosera rotundifolia].Coos County,N.H.9-2-18
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Round leaved Sundew buds [Drosera rotundifolia].Schuylkill County,Pa.3-8-18
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Bladderwort [Utticularia],Carnivorous plant.These plants are aquatic,having traps or bladders under the water.there are trigger hairs in front of the bladder,when a hair is touched by prey [tiny animals,insects,small fish] a door springs open creating a suction,[lower pressure,because the bladder dose not have water in it] that sucks the prey inside the bladder.These plants are found all over the world.Plant provided from Kirk Tuttle's collection.


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Male [blue] & Female Familiar Bluets damselflies [Enallagma civile],caught on Round-leaved Sundew [Drosera rotundifolia] [Carnivorous plant].New York,6-3-17
Round-leaved Sundew [Drosera rotundifolia].Schuylkill county,8-7-15
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Round-leaved Sundew [Drosera rotundifolia].Schuylkill county,8-7-15.Notice the sticky leaves have caught an ant. 
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Round-leaved Sundew [Drosera rotundifolia].Coos county,N.H.,9-10-09
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Mosquito caught in Round-leaved Sundew [Drosera rotundifolia].Tioga county,6-10-10
Mosquito caught in Round-leaved Sundew [Drosera rotundifolia].Tioga county,6-10-10 & Northern Pitcher Plant [Sarracenia purpurea] & insects trapped in Pitcher plant.Tioga county,6-10-10 
Northern Pitcher Plant [Sarracenia purpurea].Tioga county,6-10-10
Round leaved Sundew [Drosera rotundifolia] & Northern Pitcher Plant [Sarracenia purpurea].Tioga county,6-10-10
Insects caught in Round Leaved Sundew [Drosera rotundifolia].Tioga county,6-11-10 
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Northern Pitcher Plant [Sarracenia purpurea] Flower.Tioga county,6-11-10
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Round Leaved Sundew [Drosera rotundifolia].Coos county,N.H.,9-12-10 
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