A Viscoelastic Deadly Fluid in Carnivorous Pitcher Plants

[Av8tor1]

a good 2007 paper (open access)

A Viscoelastic Deadly Fluid in Carnivorous Pitcher Plants

enjoy,
Av

 

[D_muscipula]

I saw that article when I searched nepenthes on googles scientific search engine thing, quite interesting.

 

[nightsky]

Here's another that has the videos (near bottom of page) from the study, if anyone likes to see flies fall into fluid heh: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0001185#pone.0001185.s001

 

[Av8tor1]

jstor.com is the motherload if you have access privileges

 

[vraev]

wow! fantastic article. thanks for posting B! it was a good read.

 

[DavyJones]

Really interesting article, and even better videos. I had no idea that insects tended to be "water-proof" as one might say.

I'll have to start using the resources my school is subscribed to to read through Nepenthes info. It never even crossed my mind to look for stuff through those.

 

[polywer2345]

how intresting

 

[Roarbark]

Thanks for sharing. Very interesting experiment/study/article. I might even try recreating the activity at some point .