Carnivorous plants are dining on bugs around the world

Roger Boddaert

Special to the Village News

Carnivorous plants are found from the exotic rainforest to the snowy bogs in the northern hemisphere and even in Northern California.

This unique and specialized class of plants has over 700 kinds that attract bugs of all types and lure them with their sticky tentacles and pitcher-like containers, to devore them through digestive plant juices.

The following are some types for starters as you enter the world of bizarre carnivorous plants and beware says Audrey from “The little shop of Horrors” movie who says, “Feed me Seymour.”

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