Plant eats bird ... "feed me seymour" .. lol

[Shadeyman]

A plant has killed and "eaten" a great tit at a garden nursery in Somerset.
Nurseryman Nigel Hewitt-Cooper, from West Pennard, was inspecting his tropical garden when he discovered one of his pitcher plants had trapped the bird.
He said he was "absolutely staggered" to find it had caught the creature.
It is believed to be only the second time such a carnivorous plant has been documented eating a bird anywhere in the world.
"I've got a friend who's studied these particular plants extensively in the wild and he's never found evidence of any of them having caught birds," said Mr Hewitt-Cooper.
"The other documented time was in Germany a few years ago and that was in cultivation, not in the wild.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-14416809

 

[Focus Owner]

but won't eat a bat
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9372000/9372874.stm

 

[Shadeyman]

Birds but not bats. :chin:

I had a Venus Fly Trap but it seemed to attract more flys than it ate so I gave it to a friends daughter, its now really big covering a 2 foot square box.

 

[jnoiles]

its now really big covering a 2 foot square box.

That's terrifying!

 

[Shadeyman]

That's terrifying!

Venus Fly Traps don't grow into one huge plant, they spread out, lots of small plants. The actual traps are about 1 and a half inches long, some slightly bigger, some slightly smaller.