Drosera Insect Eating Plants

These insect eating plants, numerous in number, from all around the world catch insects by a sticky nectar secreted on tenticles on their leaves.

These very fine tenticles then pull the insect into the centre of the leaf where it digests the nutrient from it. When a larger insect is caught, a leaf may curl around it, to provide a larger surface area to digest the 'meal'. (Capensis). Keep wet and in a well lit, humid environment. Rain water is best for these plants. Prolific catchers of small insects such as sand flies, mosquitos, flies and small moths.