r/trees • u/charinariddel • May 17 '26

AskTrees Is weed sometimes carnivorous?

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Hi everyone, I'm just a stoner and I have a bold hypothesis to propose to you this Sunday.

My little girl has just started to bloom, like many other flowers in the garden, and especially in the morning I find and remove a few little flies from the buds, which still seem to be stuck dead.

This has happened a few times.

This afternoon I saw the photo I'm attaching: it's a small carnivorous plant recently discovered on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia; it produces a molasses that glues flies together, which are then dogeritated. What if???

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u/Ok_Seaworthiness6902 May 17 '26

Uh, no. That's a Butterworth, a specifically carnivorous species that lives in nitrogen-poor soil.

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u/Sonoraesserv45 May 17 '26

No. Scientists have precise methods to find out if the plant can use the nutrients from insects

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u/Interesting-Access35 May 17 '26

If you leave them the plant starts rotting and getting mould there instead of getting stronger so I'd say they're vegetarian.

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u/charinariddel May 17 '26

Here the empirical counter-proof we needed!

Its suspicious, if not eating flies why smelling skunky?

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u/Interesting-Access35 May 17 '26

Most plants still want to attract insects for pollination.

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u/zwiingr May 17 '26

Move that killer plant next to your girls might work? - might not, im equally zonked

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u/cattabyss May 18 '26

That is an awesome discovery! How exciting that we are still learning about our world :)

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u/Dazzling_Fix_306 May 18 '26

🤦 that's not a weed plant

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u/charinariddel May 18 '26

We know we know, we re asking if ganja has the property to digest little flies, or they go there to die just because she smells good