Some facts about bug eating plants

In swampy areas there are not enough minerals to feed the plants, the soil is especially low in nitrates which plants need to grow so plants eat insects for the nitrates.Some bug eating plants look pretty.The Australian pink petticoat plant looks like a tiny pink petticoat but when a bug crawls inside it will find itself in a trap and is digested alive.The sundew plant which found all over the world from Australia to USA is yellow in colour to attract insects and sticky tentacles with thousands of balls of glue. First a crawling insect sticks in the glue, then tentacles slowly wraps around it (which takes up to 2 days) then digestive juices dissolve the insect alive.