{"id":1333,"date":"2011-02-17T00:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/17\/video-aquatic-carnivorous-plant-gulps-a-meal\/"},"modified":"2011-02-17T00:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T00:13:00","slug":"video-aquatic-carnivorous-plant-gulps-a-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/17\/video-aquatic-carnivorous-plant-gulps-a-meal\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Aquatic carnivorous plant gulps a meal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/ZUBecNHDa0E\/video-aquatic-carniv.html\">Video: Aquatic carnivorous plant gulps a meal<\/a>: &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>In this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zb_SLZFsMyQ?rel=0\">video<\/a>, you can watch a carnivorous aquatic bladderwort plant suck down tiny crustaceans in half a millisecond. Slurp! From Science News:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<br \/>Using high-speed cameras, researchers have gotten the first good look at how these underwater plants spring their ambushes. Bladderworts sport trap doors that buckle in with a tiny nudge, creating a whirlpool that sucks in wee critters \u2014 all in about half a millisecond. That\u2019s some of the fastest plant action on Earth, a French and German team reports online February 15 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUtricularia are the smallest of carnivorous plants and also, evidently, the most sophisticated,\u201d says Lubom\u00edr Adamec, a plant physiologist at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. These netlike veggies are dotted with tiny traps, often no wider than an ant is long.<\/p>\n<p>Small or not, the traps are masterpieces of suction. Pumped nearly dry, the chambers set up a pressure difference between the plant\u2019s innards and the water outside. When swimmers brush up against a series of hairs along the trap door, the door bursts open and sucks water and crustaceans alike in.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/view\/generic\/id\/69908\/description\/Carnivorous_bladderworts_suck_up_prey\">Carnivorous bladderworts suck up prey<\/a>&#8216;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=350fb4ec122a884602d996700c402a68&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=350fb4ec122a884602d996700c402a68&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/segment-pixel.invitemedia.com\/pixel?code=TechCons&#038;partnerID=167&#038;key=segment\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?resize=0%2C0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/ZUBecNHDa0E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: Aquatic carnivorous plant gulps a meal: &#8220; In this video, you can watch a carnivorous aquatic bladderwort plant suck down tiny crustaceans in half a millisecond. Slurp! From Science News: Using high-speed cameras, researchers have gotten the first good look at how these underwater plants spring their ambushes. 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