Venezuelan pitcher plant uses wettable hairs to make insects slip into its deadly traps
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 - 19:00
in Biology & Nature
An insect-trapping pitcher plant in Venezuela uses its downward pointing hairs to create a 'water slide' on which insects slip to their death, new research reveals. The research was published today, 19 December, in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.