Question

Why does pitcher plant feed on insects?​

Answer 1

Pitcher plant contains chlorophyll, hence it can do photosynthesis and prepare its own food. Pitcher plant grows in swamps, bogs areas where the soil is deficient in nitrogen mineral. So it traps the insect and utilize their proteins die to nitrogen deficiency. Therefore its an insectivorous plant.

Answer 2

Answer:-

Known as:-

Plants that feed on insects are called insectivorous plants or carnivorous plants.

Examples of insectivorous plants:-

• Picture plant.
• Venus flytrap
• Sundew
• Drosera capensis

and more.

Reason:-

These kind of plants mostly grow in a type of soil that will not have proper nitrogen particals.

These plants will not contain chlorophyll and they cannot make their own food by the process of photosynthesis. And so, these kind of plants feed on insects.

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