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RE: Ecology Writ Small: In the Stomach of A Carnivorous Plant
Is it known why these plants evolved to consume insects? Was it for benefit of the plant- so it would have greater nutrition sources, or was it due to a need on the forest floor?
Most of them live on mountaintops or in bogs, places where there tends to be very little in the way of nitrogen and other nutrients, which is why they get them from bugs and such.