Hungry Plants by Mary Batten

Author:Mary Batten
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780307531223
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2000-11-29T10:00:00+00:00

Most tropical pitcher plants are climbing vines that usually have two types of pitchers. Lower pitchers are shaped sort of like cans. Because they are closer to the ground, lower pitchers catch crawling insects. Upper pitchers are shaped like funnels. Upper pitchers catch mostly flying insects such as honeybees, flies, and hornets.

Above the plant’s mouth is a hood that acts like a little umbrella. It keeps the pitcher from filling up with rainwater. Flying insects use the hood as a landing pad.

The pitcher doesn’t always get a chance to eat every bug it catches.

Sometimes it is robbed by a food thief. A diving spider can dive into the pitcher and steal a bug the plant has trapped. Diving spiders can get out of pitcher plants without being trapped.

They crawl up a silk thread that they spin from their bodies. The thread acts like a safety line.

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