What do carnivorous plants eat?

Answer 1

insects!

Answer 2

Carnivorous plants absorb trace nutrients such as Nitrogen from the soft parts if insects. Some carnivorous plants have traps that are small enough to capture microbes, others are large enough to consume small frogs and lizards.

Answer 3

It depends on where they live. Many carnivorous plants, such as Utricularia and Aldrovanda, live with their traps submerged in water. These plants capture very small prey like rotifers and daphnia, and even larger aquatic prey such as mosquito larvae and even fish fry.

Evidence suggests that the genus Genlisea has traps specialized to capture protozoa! Meanwhile, Pinguicula and Drosera tend to catch flying insects like gnats, flies, and moths. Pitcher plants (Sarracenia, Nepenthes, Cephalotus, etc.) capture foraging insects, especially flies, moths, wasps, butterflies, beetles, and ants. Venus Flytraps capture any crawling insect---mine feast particularly on spiders, but plants in the wild no doubt have a different diet.

Answer 4

They eat the same things that other plants eat in terms of the nutrients that they receive from the soil. They do, however, supplement their appetites with insects.

Answer 5

Insectae

Answer 6

Any insects that happen to land in them...please PLEEEASE don't feed them meat! This WILL kill them!

Answer 7

bugs and organic particles, for nitrogen and protein

Answer 8

mine eat people.