8 unique plants that eat insects

Famous for its jaw-like leaves that snap shut when triggered by tiny hairs.

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Features deep, slippery cavities filled with digestive fluids to trap and digest insects.

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Covered in sticky, glistening tentacles that trap bugs like flypaper.

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Has greasy, sticky leaves that attract and digest flies and gnats.

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A carnivorous plant with a hooded "cobra-like" appearance that lures insects inside.

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Aquatic and soil-dwelling, it captures prey with tiny bladder-like traps that suck in insects.

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A rare pitcher plant from Australia with beautiful, colorful traps.

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Portuguese Sundew (Drosophyllum lusitanicum)

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8 unique plants that eat insects

Famous for its jaw-like leaves that snap shut when triggered by tiny hairs.

Venus Flytrap

Features deep, slippery cavities filled with digestive fluids to trap and digest insects.

Pitcher Plant

Covered in sticky, glistening tentacles that trap bugs like flypaper.

Sundew

Has greasy, sticky leaves that attract and digest flies and gnats.

Butterwort

A carnivorous plant with a hooded "cobra-like" appearance that lures insects inside.

Cobra Lily

Aquatic and soil-dwelling, it captures prey with tiny bladder-like traps that suck in insects.

Bladderwort

A rare pitcher plant from Australia with beautiful, colorful traps.

Australian Pitcher Plant (Cephalotus follicularis)

Portuguese Sundew (Drosophyllum lusitanicum)

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