The Hungry Bog

Photography, conservation, and cultivation of the carnivorous plants of North America. For beginners and experts alike! Genera include: Sarracenia (Trumpet plants) Drosera (Sundews) Dionaea (Venus flytrap) Utricularia (Bladderworts) Pinguicula (Butterworts) Darlingtonia (Cobra lily)

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Drosera looking gorgeous 🥰

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A pink sundew (Drosera capillaris) in Broxton Rocks Preserve, GA, USA

by Alan Cressler

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Dionaea muscipula under ice

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Sarracenias II: Botanical Conservatory. UD Davis, 11-07-19.

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Drosera spatulata

c. 1880

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Venus Flytrap Knowledge Nuggets

Nugget 1: These carnivorous wonders are not only cool, but rare too. Flytraps have been introduced to other areas outside their original habitat, but their natural range is North Carolina and a small section of South Carolina. Nugget 2: They get most of their energy through photosynthesis, but they also famously get some of their nutrients from digesting insects too. An insect will crawl across the leaves, brushing against tiny hairs that trigger a response for the leaves to snap shut. Boom! Lunch is served. Nugget 3: Venus flytraps do have some threats, the biggest of which is habitat loss and poaching. You can help keep these insect munching friends safe. 

Check out our tips on how to spot a poached flytrap:  http://ow.ly/E0Uf50HzrXL Photo: Venus flytraps by Jennifer Koches/USFWS

via: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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I love a good flower but still gotta say I think the hood of my Sarracenia is the most beautiful structure in the whole wide world of plants

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Sarracenia purpurea

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pretty pretty carnivores. Wrocławski Ogród Botaniczny, august 2021

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Pitcher plants always remind me of home

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We found an entire fen full of pitcher plants!!!

A lifer plant species for me 💕

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Early Summer Sarracenia pitchers. #carnivorousplants #sarracenia #botany

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Pitcher plants near a pond

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Sarracenia

Northwest Florida

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Pitcher plants (Sarracenia purpurea) by Tanner Via Flickr: New Jersey pine barrens bog. Archive 2014