![]() Help us photograph the preserve's largest pitcher plant bog! Learn more about the best places in the preserve to find pitcher plants and sundews in our carnivorous plants brochure. Visit the Pitcher Plant Trail in the Turkey Creek Unit to see these plants. The bottom of the pitcher is filled with a fluid that drowns them, and then because it contains digestive enzymes, decomposes the proteins and soft body parts so that it can be absorbed into the plant for nutrition. Downward pointing hairs lining the lower portion impede the insect's ability to climb back out. After an insect lands on the lip of the flower and begins to enter the mouth, it comes to a waxy inner surface that causes it to slide down the funnel. Pitcher plants capture insects by luring them to the mouth of the trap with color, nectar, and/or scent. Pitcher plants are passive plants that do not use movement in the capture and digestion of insects. NPS Photo / Scott Sharaga Pale Pitcher Plant Can you see the wasp going down the funnel? Pair of pale pitcher plants (Sarracenia alata).
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