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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Because the flowers attract food in the form of insects. I must be missing something here.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Carnivorous plants need to attract insects to feed AND to reproduce. Of course they don't want to eat the pollinators so they usually have flowers with long stems

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep! The pitcher plants around here have high flowers and Venus Fly Traps have hilariously high flowers.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

sundews too, and sarrencenia, aquatic plants. also we found out some pitchers attract mammals for thier nutrient rich poop"poop in thier pitchers" to get all that nitrogen.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Pitcher plants and flytraps use sugary secretions to attract prey not flowers.

[–] zedgeist@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why would they want to attract flowers?

Because they're pretty, duh

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Both use flowers with long stems to keep the pollinators out of harm's way. I grow both, seen it IRL.