Beware the pitcher plant Photo

Photographer’s Note

Dorcas Bay on the Bruce Peninsula is home to several plants which eat insects, the pitcher plant being one of these. The flower head you see here is just the bait. The insect lands on it, slips off, falls into one of the water-filled green 'cups' below, can't climb back out due to the downward pointing hairs inside, and drowns. The pitcher plant does not actually eat the insect, it absorbs the nutrients from its body once the poor dupe has rotted. However, I took the picture because the flower is pretty and seems to be admiring itself in the stream.

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