Carnivorous Sundew Catches Wasp!

I was standing in my backyard when a wasp flew by. He headed directly into the worst possible fate - Straight into the clutches of a Southern Dewthread sundew. These plants are living flypaper. They stick to the insect with drops of glue and then digest their prey. You can see the sticky mess the wasp is in at the end of the video.

This wasp actually lived happily ever after. He struggled loose and finally flew away about an hour after this video was taken. Many other insects that you can see in the video were not as lucky.

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• Drosera
• Filiformis
• wasp
• bee
• vs.
• digest
• venus
• flytrap
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• trap
• photography
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• bumblebee
• mucilage
• flypaper
• glue

[markdangerman]

is the music called " flight of the honey bee "

[jpachter1]

@markdangerman Flight of the Bumble Bee

[Treiyou]

AWESOME CHOICE OF MUSIC... so ironic... i like carnivorous plants

[jpachter1]

Thanks Treiyou. I appreciate your comments.

[gg2000gg2000]

Wasp is hanging out with the wrong kind of plants!

[BloodyPainfulDeath]

@spanishxsword Thanks. :) i'll definitely look around.

[spanishxsword]

@BloodyPainfulDeath u can buy seeds on ebay, u can find some really cheap and with a lot of seeds in the packets.

[BloodyPainfulDeath]

Carnivorous plants are gorgeous...I'd love to have a sundew plant or a venus fly trap someday. Or a cobra lily. Or hell, why not them all? XD

[thunderchundering]

would you risk it for a chocolate biscut mouse?

[opentoedsandles]

I didn't think a Sundew could catch something as large as a wasp!

Good thing, though, because wasps are bastards :D