Photographed in Mer Bleue Bog. This carnivorous plant is here growing out of a mat of sphagnum moss, just visible, and with Labrador tea and wild cranberry. When insects crawl or fall into the pitcher plant their wings are wet from the water in the plant and they cannot fly, nor can they climb up the inside as there are tiny downward growing spines that prevent them from walking up. These plants get nutrients from dissolved insect bodies. Nature is ingenious.
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