• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Because the flowers attract food in the form of insects. I must be missing something here.

    • drolex@sopuli.xyz
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      17 hours ago

      Carnivorous plants need to attract insects to feed AND to reproduce. Of course they don’t want to eat the pollinators so they usually have flowers with long stems

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
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        9 hours ago

        Yep! The pitcher plants around here have high flowers and Venus Fly Traps have hilariously high flowers.

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          6 hours ago

          sundews too, and sarrencenia, aquatic plants. also we found out some pitchers attract mammals for thier nutrient rich poop"poop in thier pitchers" to get all that nitrogen.