Plants that eat animals; from pitchers to snap-traps

Carnivorous plants have developed specialized structures to capture and digest prey for essential nutrients in nutrient-poor environments. These include pitcher plants with pitfall traps, Venus flytraps with snap traps, sundews with sticky traps, bladderworts with suction traps, and waterwheel plants. India’s notable species are Nepenthes khasiana and Drosera burmannii.