Meat-eating pitcher plants raise deathtraps to an art
Green carnivores hunt with scum and sweets
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FANCY FRILLS Scientists thought the red-veined forked frill that grows at the mouth of a California pitcher plant’s water trap was an insect lure, but now they’re not so sure.
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