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	aquatic and insectivorous plant descriptions
		Plants are usually small (2-3 inches in diameter, but some species can reach 12 inches or more in diameter).
		Plant body (actually not a leaf) with a single rootlet, proliferates by offshoots that remain connected for a short time.
		Plant prefers to grow in peat bogs or in wet soil near water.
	www.uky.edu /Ag/Horticulture/pls220/aquatics/aquatics.html (927 words)

	insectivorous plant
		The Venus flytrap is a carnivorous plant native to the bogs of the southeastern USA.
		Plant that can capture and digest live prey (normally insects), to obtain nitrogen compounds that are lacking in its usual marshy habitat.
		Insectivorous plants have adapted to grow in poor soil conditions where the number of micro-organisms recycling nitrogen compounds is very much reduced.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0007918.html (352 words)

	Insectivorous Plants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		An insectivorous plant, also called a carnivorous plant, captures prey items, such as insects, spiders, crustaceans, mites, and protozoans, as a nitrogen source.
		Many insectivorous species live in freshwater bogs, where nitrogen is not present in available form, because the pH of the water is extremely acid.
		The General Types and Properties of Insectivorous Plants
	www.botgard.ucla.edu /html/botanytextbooks/lifeforms/insectivorousplants/index.html (65 words)

	VERA, A. - LoveToKnow Article on VERA, A. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		VENUSS FLY-TRAP (Dionaea muscipula), a remarkable insectivorous plant, a native of North and South Carolina, first described in 1768 by the American botanist Ellis, in a letter to Linnaeus, in which he gave a substantially correct account of the structure and functions of its leaves, and even suggested the probability of their carnivorism.
		Linnaeus declared it the most wonderful of plants (miraculum naturae), yet only admitted that it showed an extreme case of~ sensitiveness, supposing that the insects were only accidentally captured and subsequently allowed to escape.
		The insectivorous habit of the plant was subsequently fully investigated and described by Charles Darwin in his book on insectivorous plants.
	30.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VE/VERA_A_.htm (1303 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Carnivorous plant
		A carnivorous plant is a plant that derives some or most of its nutrients (but not energy) by trapping and consuming animals, especially insects.
		Carnivorous plants usually grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic bogs and rock outcroppings.
		Carnivorous plants are generally unable to digest large non-insect food items; bits of hamburger, for example, will simply rot, and this may cause the trap, or even the whole plant, to die.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Insectivorous_plant (697 words)

	NRDC: Nature along New York and New Jersey's Atlantic Coastlines - August
		Plants that eat insects, called carnivorous or insectivorous plants, come in multiple species, many of which are now hovering on the brink of extinction.
		Insectivorous plants have evolved a number of astounding adaptations to their native environments, chief among them the ability to supplement insufficient nitrogen in the poor soils they inhabit by catching and digesting nitrogen-rich insects.
		Pitcher plants, which are insect-eaters that thrive in the wetlands of eastern North America, sport tubular leaves formed into trumpet-shaped receptacles for capturing insect prey.
	www.nrdc.org /water/conservation/hbyear/hbaug.asp (639 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features - In the Garden
		The Mikinalo, or sundew plant, is a small insectivorous plant (carnivorous, bug-eating plants) about 3 to 5 inches tall, and reddish-orange with small white flowers.
		The plant's distinguishing feature is its leaf blade, covered with short tentacles with tiny heads that secrete a sticky, glimmery fluid that attracts flies and other small insects.
		It is believed that this plant was brought to Hawaii embedded in mud on the feet of lesser golden plovers, which migrate annually between Hawaii and temperate regions such as Alaska.
	starbulletin.com /2004/08/20/features/garden.html (247 words)

	* Insectivorous plant - (Gardening): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Plants that will trap and digest insects that will supply them with nitrogen.
		Most of these plants grow in swamps where it is difficult to obtain nitrogen...
		These insectivorous plants lure their prey using a sweet smelling nectar.
	www.mimihu.com /gardening/insectivorous_plant.html (88 words)

	Ecology: Conditional outcomes of interactions: the pollinator-prey conflict of an insectivorous plant
		In this respect, site-specific effects in plant-insect relationships may be particularly important, because the physical environment governs the ecophysiology of both plants, due to their sessile lifestyle, and insects, due to their small size.
		I have tested this hypothesis for an insectivorous plant, which faces possible antagonism in the diverse relationships between plant and pollinators, plant and prey, plant and herbivore and/or plant and kleptoparasite.
		Despite the fact that plants experience, simultaneously or sequentially, mutualistic and antagonic interactions with animals, few studies have examined the combined effects of these opposing interactions on plant evolutionary ecology (see Strauss and Armbruster 1997 for a recent review).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2120/is_3_80/ai_54545708 (1099 words)

	Insectivorous Plants
		Furthermore, it is also true that these insectivorous plants have an active role in 1) trapping insects (and presumably other small organisms) and 2) digesting their soft tissues, often using digestive enzymes produced by the plants themselves.
		In fact, insectivorous plants generally grow in soils that are less conducive to growth of nitrogen-converting bacteria (for example, very low-pH soils).
		The ability for the insectivorous plants to augment their nitrogen supply, via small insects that are rich in nitrogenous organic molecules, allows these plants to circumvent the dangers involved in low-nitrogen soils.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~biol240/labs/lab_14plantenvir/pages/insectivory.html (544 words)

	Ecology: Conditional outcomes of interactions: the pollinator-prey conflict of an insectivorous plant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		All beetles placed on sunlight and shade plants remained fixed for [greater than] 1 h, whereas 80% of beetles escaped from the leaves of plants growing on the deep-shade habitat, because of the low retention capacity of the mucilage there.
		Because leaves do not mimic flower characteristics, as occurs in pitcher plants (Joel 1988, Moran 1996), the key traits favoring the capture of small flower visitors are the spatial proximity of flowers and traps, and the way in which the pollinators move between flowers.
		On the other hand, flowering and nonflowering plants appear to catch nonpollinating taxa, such as mosquitos, flies, and aphids, which are the most common prey of P. vallisneriifolia (Zamora 1995), with equal frequency.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2120/is_3_80/ai_54545708/pg_4 (1350 words)

	/chico/yupik/head.txt
		In other respects, the capture by aquatic plants of solar energy and inorganic materials, as well as their transfer through food chains and cycling by means of microorganisms, parallels those processes on land.
		Polyclimax theories stress that plant development does not follow predictable outlines and that the evolution of ecosystems is subject to many variables.
		The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.
	www.si.umich.edu /chico/yupik/lessons/glossary.html (3600 words)

	Insectivorous plant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Carnivorous plants usually grow in placeswhere the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic bogs and rock outcropings.
		A fanciful carnivorous plant with an insatiable appetite was the central theme of the comedic play, Little Shop of Horrors, made from a more serious 1960smovie of the same name.
		A large floral plant consumed a young woman in Madagascar in 1878, as witnessed by Dr Carl Liche, or so he reported in the September26, 1920 issue of The American Weekly.
	www.therfcc.org /insectivorous-plant-310313.html (252 words)

	pitcher plant on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		An insect that enters, lured by nectar and sometimes by brilliant coloration, is prevented from retreating by deflexed bristles and ultimately is drowned in the fluid.
		The trapped insects are apparently digested by plant enzymes and perhaps by bacteria present in the collected rainwater solution.
		Pitcher plants not only provide decor for the garden but capture and devour insects as well.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/p1/pitcherp.asp (594 words)

	NASTIC MOVEMENTS
		Nastic movements in plants are reversible and repeatable movements in response to a stimulus whose direction is determined by the anatomy of the plant.
		Examples include the diurnal movement of leaves and the response of insectivorous plants, such as the Venus fly trap, to prey.
		This is particularly important for cases such as insectivorous plants where movement is very rapid and seems unlikely to be driven solely by osmosis.
	www.tiem.utk.edu /~gross/bioed/webmodules/nasticmovements.html (957 words)

	Reproductive Biology of Darlingtonia californica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For example, all carnivorous plants must face the quandary of their simultaneous need for insects both as prey and as pollinators.
		I found that pitcher plants are among the earliest spring bloomers, possibly an adaptation to avoid competition with the myriad lilies, orchids and violets that share their wetland habitat.
		Lines of inquiry I hope to pursue in the upcoming field season include the identity of the pollinator and its' interaction with the blossom's arachnid inhabitants and the detection of possible blossom scent glands, nectaries, and ultraviolet patterns that serve to attract pollinators.
	www.omnisterra.com /botany/cp/pictures/darlingt/0074.htm (1316 words)

	Carnivorous Plants
		Some tropical pitcher plants may be large enough to trap small amphibians, but generally their diet is chiefly insects.
		The sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica) is a pantropical weedy herb in the legume family (Fabaceae).
		The sensitive plant is especially interesting because of the rapidity of the wilting process, an entire leaf suddenly drooping after it has been touched.
	waynesword.palomar.edu /carnivor.htm (2717 words)

	Flowering Plant Diversity
		Vegetation is stratified and the plant form and stature is termed its habit.
		Such plants are often fleshy and succulent (to dilute the salt they invariably take up) and often have salt glands on the leaf surface to pump salt out of the plant.
		Pitcher plants have vase-like leaves which attract insects by their smell and from which they cannot escape.
	scitec.uwichill.edu.bb /bcs/bl14apl/flow2.htm (1044 words)

	insectivorous Plant, emilycompost gardening, gardening tips, organic gardening, flower gardening, vegetable gardening, ...
		Venus fly trap (Dionaea), pitcher plants, sundews, butterworts, and bladderworts are all insectivorous and carnivorous.
		Carnivorous and insectivorous plants are those that maintain their life by trapping and eating insects and other creatures.
		But, after the plant has flowered and has been zapped of a lot of energy, use a mild organic fertilizer like fish emulsion, bone meal, or dried blood.
	www.emilycompost.com /insectivorous.htm (307 words)

	Ecology : Conditional outcomes of interactions: the pollinator-prey conflict of an insectivorous plant. @ HighBeam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ecology : Conditional outcomes of interactions: the pollinator-prey conflict of an insectivorous plant.
		Start / E / Ecology / April 01, 1999 / Conditional outcomes of interactions: the pollinator-prey conflict of an insectivorous plant.
		Conditional outcomes of interactions: the pollinator-prey conflict of an insectivorous plant.
	static.highbeam.com /e/ecology/april011999/conditionaloutcomesofinteractionsthepollinatorprey/index.html (221 words)

	plants
		Azaleas, palms, bushes and flowering plants are available during the seasons.
		The Sarracenia is a passive insectivorous plant with no moving parts.
		The red color on the traps develops when soil is low in nutrients and plants are in bright light.
	www.ortongardens.com /nursery.htm (601 words)

	Australia's Biodiversity - Responses to Fire - Plants, birds and invertebrates: Biodiversity and Bushfires: an ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Study of foraging behaviours of insectivorous and nectarivorous birds across a range of habitats.
		Growth rates (and phenology) of moorland plant species are very variable, leading to wide range of vegetation ages used.
		Densities peaked at 5-8 years post-fire, when the number of food plants, and standing crop of food, is maximum, and when these are most stable seasonally.
	www.ea.gov.au /biodiversity/publications/technical/fire/fireandbirds.html (15101 words)

	Plant of the Week 7/23/2001: Huntsman's Cup (Sarracenia purpurea) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The huntsman's cup (Sarracenia purpurea) [sar a see' nee a pur pur ee' a] is an insectivorous plant found in acidic, nutrient-poor bogs in eastern North America.
		But the plant is more than just a small curiosity; it is the base for its own little ecosystem.
		The plant saves having to use its limited source of nitrogen to make the enzymes.
	www.killerplants.com /plant-of-the-week/20010723.asp (444 words)

	Missing in the reference library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		You can find information about Italian carnivorous plants, where you can find them in Italy and list of Italian botanical garden where carnivorous plants are collected.
		The book concentrates on descriptions of traps, although brief descriptions of whole plants are also given (incl.13 species recognized by the author which occur in Poland).
		This book looks at how plants become predators; how they lure, capture and kill prey; and how some creatures, especially man, pose a threat to their existence.
	www.angelfire.com /de/cpbooks/miss.html (1370 words)

	Symbols of Newfoundland by Jim Cornish
		Fortunately, the pitcher plant is only a few inches tall and is only a threat to insects that come to explore the red-meatlooking interior.
		The Pitcher-plant is a carnivorous plant, a meat eater.
		The pitcher plant is given credit with curing small-pox among the Native Americans during colonial times.
	www.stemnet.nf.ca /CITE/nfsymbol.htm (709 words)

	Larry's Carnivorous Plants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Plants I have available for sale at the moment will be listed here.
		None of the plants offerred are field collected.
		Plants that may be available in the future.
	www.insectivorous.com /plant_sale.htm (67 words)

	Tropical Pitcher Plants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Insectivorous perennial from Madagascar, Southeast Asia, Borneo and Queensland.
		The pitchers vary in shape and color from pale yellow to green or purplish red, and are often mottled.
		Upper and lower pitchers often differ in color on the same plant.
	www.carnivorousplantsplus.com /site/562173/page/153859 (127 words)

	The Gardening Launch Pad Carnivorous
		Insectivorous Plants in the Wilderness is a site by Makoto Honda that parallels his Japanese book on carnivorous plants, which was sponsored by the Insectivorous Plant Society.
		The International Carnivorous Plant Society (ICPS) is an organization of horticulturists, conservationists, scientists, and educators all interested in sharing knowledge and news of carnivorous plants.
		Carnivorous Plants of Texas © is part of an attempt to help preserve rare, carnivorous, wetland plants and the habitats in which they live in the Lone Star State, through collection and dissemination of information, education, preservation and repair of
	gardeninglaunchpad.com /Car.html (691 words)

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