The meat-eating bladderwort traps aquatic animals at lightning speed
- Written by Greg Leach, Honorary Fellow at Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University
A hapless animal will swim by, triggering the sensitive hairs at the front of the bladderworts’ bladder, which open like a trap door. Emma Lupin, Author providedCarnivorous plants intrigue people. It’s so out of place to our mental image of what “normal” plants should do.
On the outskirts of Darwin, bladderworts can be...
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