The Borneo Hills diet

• Autores: Stephanie Pain
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2954, 2014, págs. 43-45
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The pitcher plants of south-east Asia are famed for their carnivorous habits. These merciless killers lure insects to the top of their traps with sweet nectar, where many lose their grip on the ultra-slippery rim and fall into the fluid-filled trap. As the victims desperately try to climb out, they discover too late that this is no ordinary fluid--it is filled with invisible stretchy fibers, and the more an insect struggles, the more entangled it becomes. Here, Pain details that a few carnivorous plants have resorted to hunting a rather more unusual prey instead of catching insects.