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Article written by: duddy on Jun 27, 2015



Title: This plant will solve all your termite problems
Written by: duddy on Jun 27, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sScmZExKNQQ

The pitcher plant, much like the Venus flytrap, is a carnivorous plant that survives by digesting insects. It's sweet nectar entices insects to feed off it, though this may come at a cost as they risk falling into a deadly pool of acid at the bottom of the pitcher plant's bucket-shaped leaf.


Comments:

One type attracts wasps and moths, not sure about bees and butterflies, but I doubt they're immune.

I know one is specifically only attractive to termites and is used to lead termites away and murder them in certain areas.

Written by: duddy on Jun 27, 2015
Does it hurt pollinators? Bees, wasps and butterflies?

Written by: savio on Jun 27, 2015