When you think of predators, you won't think of plants immediately, but there are indeed hunters in plants. They are the best hunters hidden among all hunters. Maybe they can't be chased quickly, but they are all carnivorous. How do they hunt?

When thinking of predators, you won’t think of plants immediately, but there are indeed hunters in plants. They are the best hunters hidden among all hunters. Maybe they can’t be chased quickly, but they are all carnivorous. How do they hunt?

There is a kind of bottle grass , which attract prey through tempting colors, smells and honey. Some types of bottle grass even have patterns similar to flowers. The bottle tongue produces a lot of honey, but to eat the honey, you must climb on the slippery edge of the bottle, and below is a pool of digestive juice. Carnivorous plants evolved such delicate arrangements to supplement their nutrient deficiencies, which was a bit like taking vitamin tablets.

There is also a kind of sorrel grass. Its leaves are covered with beautiful red tentacles. The small dewdrops are full of murderous intentions for insects. These small balls are very sticky. There may be as many as 200 tentacles on each leaf. They are distributed in large areas. When the insects fall on the leaves, they are firmly entangled and cannot escape. The receptors in the leaves when the insects are struggling, curling the leaves inward to close the tentacles, grabbing the insects, and releasing digestive fluid to suffocate them. How many days does the entire digestion process take to complete, and the time required depends on the size of the prey.

The most famous carnivorous plant is Vest Flytrap . Once prey enters, it will close immediately. Once the two leaves of sensitive hair-touched leaves are touched, they will quickly close together, and life-long escape often occurs, but not every intruder is so lucky. Those who move slowly cannot escape the trap. After the hair inside is touched, the two lobes of the thorny leaves with digestive function will close quickly, and the speed is so fast that they can catch flies. Once the insects catch the thorns on the edge of the leaf, they become roaring wood brake devices, locking the prey firmly inside. The digestion of Venus flytrap also serves to bathe the prey in a sour water. Some insects that fell into traps were lucky enough to escape, but most were preyed by the plant. In this life-and-death struggle, who would have thought that it was preyed by plants?