Plants are known to use a wide range of techniques to attract pollinating insects. They include colourful flowers, tasty nectar, even mimicry. Carnivorous plants, which acquire most of their nutrients by capturing ants, insects and other arthropods through their leaf-evolved biological traps, attract insects for food. These plants also use a variety of methods to attract their prey, not least of which are their flowers. Some carnivorous plants even have appendages that mimic flowers in looks and scent in order to fool insects into coming close. A team of Indian researchers have now reported a new prey capture mechanism in some species of carnivorous plants.
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