Wild Adventures with Steve: Pitcher Plants in Bloom

The pitcher plants are in full bloom--check em' out! Soon the new pitchers will form and the bugs will need to look out for their lives!

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[xseshun]

All the different colours in the petals make me suspect they're all different species. Were they all in the same locality? Filmed at the same time? You're very lucky to have seen them in native habitat, presume you work there.

[snakesteve68]

Yes, they are different species. Yes, in the same location. I planted this bog at my place of business to teach people about the pitcher plants. I have a friend who grows pitcher plants--he has thousands of them in greenhouses! Amazing to visit him--no bugs in sight--unless you look inside the pitcher plants:-)

[fished64]

cool vid! ive never heard of these plants.,say they somehow eat bugs?

i also enjoyed the music

thanks

[snakesteve68]

Yes, they do eat insects. The lowlands of the USA and Canada were once covered in thousands of acres of carnivorous plant wetlands and bogs. These areas controlled the swarms of insects. Then white man came and all the wetlands are gone now replaced by farms and development. Now we must control insects with toxic chemicals that hurt the environment and our children--very sad indeed. When will we ever learn to stop messing with Nature.

[XxReaperxx0xX]

Hey if you know alot about them then can you help me my piter plant has 5 leafs when will it devide?