Sundew in the process of catching a fly!

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:01]While morbid, you can see here how bugs flies particularly get stuck on Drosera binata, which is a carnivorous plant.

[00:00:12]See this unfortunate fly decided to land on here because of the dew that it has on it thinking it was water.

[00:00:20]And that dew is made up of um a sugar rate a base compound known as a mucilage, and it is very, very sticky.

[00:00:30]And the bug gets on there and can't get off. And what happens is eventually the bug will tire out, and it'll lay flat on that plant, and then the plant will start releasing digestive enzymes like it's done to all of its friends here.

[00:00:44]And that is how this plant eats its prey.

[00:00:48]Pretty gnarly.