Monday, August 24, 2009

Feed Me, Seymour

Do you have a rodent problem? Ditch the traps and poisons. Get a carnivorous plant. The Venus Flytrap is a mere popgun compared to the big-barreled, newly-discovered meat eater from the Phillipines:

The plant lures in the rats with the promise of sweet nectar. When the rat leans into the plant to drink the saccharine liquid, it slips on the pitcher's waxy interior, and gets stuck in the gooey sap. Once it is trapped, acid-like digestive enzymes break down the still-living rodent.

Yummy. It's your very own Little Shop of Horrors for your domestic pests.

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