Carnivorous Plants

Carnivorous plants and how they feed.

Snap traps, pitchers, sticky leaves: carnivorous plants catch insects to feed themselves. The exhibition reveals their astonishing strategies.

Panel by panel:

  • What do carnivorous plants look like?
  • Why are they carnivorous?
  • The Venus flytrap and its snap trap
  • Sundews and butterworts, sticky traps of the peat bogs
  • Pitcher plants: Sarracenia, Nepenthes and others
  • Bladderworts and aquatic carnivorous plants
  • False carnivores and growing carnivorous plants

Audience: all ages, ideal for children. Ideal for: a plant fair, a children's event, a life and earth sciences project.

10 panels - Available for sale and hire.

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Preview of the panels