| 单词 | pitcher plant |
| 例句 | There we discovered pitcher-plant bogs where we’d hike up our dresses, sink on our knees in the rich black muck, and stare carnivory right in the lips, feeding spiders to the pitcher plants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Native to the South, pitcher plants combine colorful flowers with striking, tube-like pitchers that trap and digest insects. 10 Best Plants for Fall 2010-09-01T22:24:00Z I am partial to hardy North American pitcher plants, if only because they are some of the prettiest perennials in the garden. These stunning plants all have one thing in common: A taste for blood 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z The family lived for a while in a hut in Borneo, surrounded by pitcher plants, flowers the size of beanbag chairs, flying snakes and pygmy forest elephants. His Son Hiked Into the Costa Rican Jungle, and Never Came Out. What Happened? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z The vessels’ overall shapes were inspired by carnivorous pitcher plants, while their voluptuously curved lips are meant to suggest a woman’s. Review | In the galleries: Delicate works show concern about the footprints we leave on our planet 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Come spring, the sisters call out the flowers’ names as exultations, or at least they call the names humans have given the flowers: Lady slipper, pitcher plant. Picture Books for the Wild at Heart 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The purple pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea, is a northern species but quite different: The pitchers are low, squat and clustered. These stunning plants all have one thing in common: A taste for blood 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Don’t miss the carnivorous plants like the Venus flytraps, pitcher plants and sundews. Gloom got you down? Try these 8 family-friendly tropical escapes in the Seattle area. 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z As the ballroom opens for the afterparty, I inadvertently push in line to be served a cocktail inside a real pitcher plant plucked from a vine, mysteriously smoking at its brim. My Baftas adventure: Dev Patel, liquid diabetes and clapping injuries 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z It is well stocked with various pitcher plants, bog orchids, violets, gentians, sundews and flytraps. These stunning plants all have one thing in common: A taste for blood 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Right photo shows three modified leaves of the pitcher plant, which are green tubes with red specks and have a red rim forming the top opening. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Humans tend to describe a pitcher plants’ scent as floral or herbal, said Laurence Gaume, a scientist the French National Centre for Scientific Research and an author of the new paper. Carnivorous Plants Use a Smelly Trick to Catch Their Prey 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z The way a pitcher plant traps bugs shows them how to capture pests in a farm field. Animals inspire scientists to solve problems that humans face 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Outside the animal kingdom, Venus flytraps, pitcher plants and others are well known for their macabre meal-making. The Toxin That Helps Oyster Mushrooms Devour Worm Flesh 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z For example, the visually striking pitcher plant Nepenthes gracilis, native to Southeast Asia, can harness falling rain’s energy to ambush animals. This Carnivorous Plant Has a Rain-Powered Trap 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z A newly discovered pitcher plant keeps its hunger for insects on the down low: It’s the first such plant known to grow working traps underground. It Hides Under the Soil With a Bottomless Appetite for Meat 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z To answer this question, Dr. Gaume and her colleagues grew four different types of Sarracenia pitcher plants at their research station in Montpelier, France. Carnivorous Plants Use a Smelly Trick to Catch Their Prey 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z Most plants will drown if their roots stay too long in water, but pitcher plants evolved in marshes leached of nutrients, said Fefferman, which is why they turned to insects for nourishment. Inside the secret world of SoCal’s carnivorous plant collectors 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Rare Indian olive, carnivorous pitcher plants and fly traps take root here, while more than 200 species of birds such as warblers, wood storks, bald eagles and snowy egrets soar through the trees. Muscogee (Creek) Nation, conservationists seeking to establish first national park and preserve in Georgia 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z The researchers also found that a closely related pitcher plant, Nepenthes rafflesiana, lacked this mechanism. This Carnivorous Plant Has a Rain-Powered Trap 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z But the hikers were sure they belonged to Nepenthes, a group that included hundreds of pitcher plant species, known for their characteristic of pitcher-shaped traps. It Hides Under the Soil With a Bottomless Appetite for Meat 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z Some of the pitcher plants used in Dr. Gaume and colleagues’ research are native to North America — in fact, they can be found in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Carnivorous Plants Use a Smelly Trick to Catch Their Prey 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z He’s adopted a parrot and tortoises, whose droppings draw flies to his yard — and those flies are efficiently consumed by his useful pitcher plants. Inside the secret world of SoCal’s carnivorous plant collectors 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z My dad and I hiked through a swamp dotted with Venus flytraps and pitcher plants. Perspective | Strangers on a plane: Vaxxed and masked, I recently rejoined humanity 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z How about a window box filled with succulents like aloes and echeverias, or edibles like herbs and nasturtiums, or even carnivorous varieties like Venus fly traps and pitcher plants? Going beyond the traditional window-box garden 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z “Nobody would expect that a pitcher plant with underground traps could exist.” It Hides Under the Soil With a Bottomless Appetite for Meat 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z The lowland coniferous forests are also the year-round home of the spruce grouse as well as plants such as the carnivorous pitcher plant. Minnesota offering more cash for black spruce seed 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Others, like the North American pitcher plant, are from the country’s steamy, boggy parts of the southeast, so they prefer to be outdoors in Southern California where they can drink up all our heat. Inside the secret world of SoCal’s carnivorous plant collectors 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z The pitcher plant bogs of Alabama, for example, are literally among the most diverse places on the planet. Is it too late to save "America’s Amazon"? 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z These include a type of red angel’s trumpet in South America used for circulatory disorders that is now extinct in the wild and an Indian pitcher plant traditionally used for skin diseases. 40% of world’s plant species at risk of extinction 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z With so many species of Nepenthes, there were probably other pitcher plants that grow underground traps, Dr. Darnowski said. It Hides Under the Soil With a Bottomless Appetite for Meat 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z They then compared their genomes with those of nine other plants, including a carnivorous pitcher plant and noncarnivorous beetroot and papaya plants. How Venus flytraps evolved their taste for meat 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Southwards, the coast yields to low stands of dwarf birch and willow, sphagnum bogs of arctic cotton grass, pitcher plants, blueberries, lingonberries, and cloudberries. The Fight for the Reindeer 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The concept was inspired by the carnivorous pitcher plant, which has tubelike modified leaves with slippery interior surfaces that cause unlucky insects to slide into its trap. Superslippery Toilets Squash Water Wastage 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z What if we dive into the pitcher plant in part because we expect a slow death? The machine always wins: what drives our addiction to social media 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z I pushed in line to be served a cocktail inside a real pitcher plant plucked from a vine, smoking at its brim. 'Rejection didn’t hurt my pride - I had none left': confessions of a failed actor | Rhik Samadder 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z Hedrich and his colleagues conclude that carnivory evolved once in the ancestor of the three species and, independently, in the pitcher plant. How Venus flytraps evolved their taste for meat 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z The team is testing multiple hypotheses about what lures the young salamanders into the fatal grip of the pitcher plant. Scientists discover carnivorous plants that feast on salamanders in Ontario 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z While some carnivorous plants are known to eat insects, the bell-shaped purple pitcher plant or Sarracenia purpurea is the first known in North America to consume amphibians, Newsweek reported. Salamander-eating plant first known in North America 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z In a macabre image, he compared addiction to a carnivorous pitcher plant. The machine always wins: what drives our addiction to social media 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Insect-eating plants, including the pitcher plant and the sundew, are found in the property’s bog. Newest Indiana nature preserve contains insect-eating plants 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z There are more than 150 species of pitcher plant in the world. Ten new plants discovered this year 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z M Alex Smith, a professor of biology at Guelph University first discovered a salamander in a pitcher plant accidentally: he was leading a group of university students on a field course in Ontario’s Algonquin Park. Scientists discover carnivorous plants that feast on salamanders in Ontario 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Scientists previously thought only tropical pitcher plants ate vertebrates. Salamander-eating plant first known in North America 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z The mountain tree shrew, Tupaia montana, pooping into its pitcher plant. Flatworms fence with their penises and other gross science facts 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z This is Nepenthes ampullaria, an unusual pitcher plant found on the islands of Southeast Asia and the Malay Peninsula. The Weird World Inside a Pitcher Plant 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Their list of the top new plants includes carnivorous pitcher plants, exotic orchids and climbers with untapped medicinal powers. Ten new plants discovered this year 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The pitcher plant is one of nearly 600 carnivorous plants found throughout the world. Scientists discover carnivorous plants that feast on salamanders in Ontario 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z A short walk away, past a living wall of carnivorous Asian pitcher plants and Philippine rhododendrons, tables and chairs are set by beds of succulents. Take a look inside Amazon’s Spheres as they get set to open 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Plants Behaving Badly The premiere of this science-based series documents a variety of pitcher plant that has a symbiotic relationship with a single ant species. Wednesday's TV highlights: 'Criminal Minds' on CBS 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Any insect unlucky enough to land on the mouth-like leaves of an Australian pitcher plant will meet a grisly end. How plants evolved into carnivores 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z There are carnivorous pitcher plants, exotic philodendrons and orchids from Ecuador that resemble the menacing flora from “Little Shop of Horrors.” Forget Beanbag Chairs. Amazon Is Giving Its Workers Treehouses. 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z The slippery coating of pitcher plants inspired the team to coat the bumps with a smooth lubricant to reduce friction as the drops moved. Beetle bumps inspire bigger and faster water droplets - BBC News 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z The findings place the species in the study, Nepenthes gracilis, into its own carnivorous category; it belongs neither with "active" carnivorous plants, like flytraps, nor motionless "passive" insect eaters - like most other pitcher plants. Plant uses raindrops to eat ants - BBC News 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z By the looks of it, Nepenthes hemsleyana, a pitcher plant in the peat swamp forests of Borneo, is gradually shrugging off meat eating in favor of the nitrogen-rich offerings of an insectivorous bat. Plants That Are Predators 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Australian pitcher plants produce deadly ‘pitcher’ leaves — which resemble a toothy grin — as well as flat leaves. How plants evolved into carnivores 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z The structure’s reverberations enable the bats to distinguish this roost-friendly pitcher plant from other closely related plants that lack the reflective piece. Carnivorous plant's sound echoes draw bats in 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Still, the fact that none of the 300 to 500 other pitcher plants have this shape, or this relationship with bats "gives us some clue," Michael Schoner says. This carnivorous plant is shaped to help bats find it, so bats can sleep and poop inside 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z This is no good for the pitcher plant, if it is going to bounce ants into its maw. Plant uses raindrops to eat ants - BBC News 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z A pitcher plant’s trap contains a deep cavity filled with liquid, which has a slippery coating along the insides. Pitcher Plant Captures Prey in Batches 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z To control when its trap is slippery, the pitcher plant secretes sugary nectar that primes the trapping surface to become wet through condensation at lower humidity levels than other plant surfaces. Plants versus ants: voracious vegetation is victorious 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The Nepenthes attenboroughii is a pitcher plant that grows in the Philippines. An Indonesian beetle just joined the list of animals named after David Attenborough 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Recently, researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University looked to the carnivorous pitcher plant for guidance. Carnivorous Plant Inspires Anticlotting Medical Devices 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Carnivorous pitcher plants owe much of their efficacy to the viscoelasticity of their digestive fluid. Physics Week in Review: December 14, 2013 2013-12-15T13:45:04.619Z In the case of Nepenthes rafflesiana, a pitcher plant native to Borneo, “wet” means after a rainstorm or at night, when humidity increases. Pitcher Plant Captures Prey in Batches 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z The pitcher plants generally grow in nutrient-poor habitats, which is why they capture animal prey to feed on. Plants versus ants: voracious vegetation is victorious 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z And while there is still more to be planted, like those pitcher plants around the pond, wildlife is already moving around, Mr. Lorimer noted. In the Garden: Native Flora Garden Opens at Brooklyn Botanic Garden 2013-06-12T22:57:31Z Carnivorous pitcher plants were among the more unusual displays in the Great Pavilion. In pictures: Chelsea Flower Show 2013-05-21T15:25:16Z And the researchers note that hairs similar to H. nutans's are found inside the hood of North American pitcher plants, so perhaps they capture their prey in a similar way. One-Way Journey to the Death Pool 2012-12-19T00:15:00Z N. rafflesiana isn’t endangered, but a number of pitcher plants are lost due to poaching, climate change and habitat loss. Pitcher Plant Captures Prey in Batches 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z The research involved an Asian species of pitcher plant, so named because its leaves form cup-shaped insect traps that look like a pitcher. Plants versus ants: voracious vegetation is victorious 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z In the 1990s scientists believed the pitcher plant , found in the rainforests of Borneo, gained nitrogen by consuming the bodies of mammals after a tree shrew was found inside the plant's pitcher-like cavity. David Attenborough's life lessons 2012-11-15T01:53:39Z In the 1990s scientists believed the pitcher plant Nepenthes rajah, found in the rainforests of Borneo, gained nitrogen by consuming the bodies of rodents after a tree shrew was found inside the plant's pitcher-like cavity. David Attenborough's life lessons 2012-11-15T01:53:39Z Some Asian pitcher plants also use the "aquaplaning" method—a textbook example of convergent evolution, Bauer says, because Asian and South American pitchers are as related to each other "as we are to flatworms." One-Way Journey to the Death Pool 2012-12-19T00:15:00Z Yet pitcher plants and other carnivorous plants are “fascinating to people,” in no small part due to their myriad adaptations. Pitcher Plant Captures Prey in Batches 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z This mechanism may let the pitcher plant capture a wider variety of insects than other types of pitcher plants. Observatory: A Wily Trap, Even for a Pitcher Plant 2012-06-18T21:39:31Z "There are three families of completely unrelated yet functionally amazingly similar pitcher plants: Nepenthaceae, Sarraceniaceae and Cephalotaceae," she explains. Pollutant turns fly-traps veggie 2012-06-13T23:46:37Z Sedges occur frequently, and the pitcher plant is very characteristic. Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 2011-10-15T02:00:26.690Z The carnivorous pitcher plant is nature's own honey trap, luring insects to their doom with drops of nectar and other enticements. One-Way Journey to the Death Pool 2012-12-19T00:15:00Z That would imply that the pitcher plant is actively increasing the time the trap is inactive to attract more scout ants, rather than simply, passively, waiting out the dry periods in the day. Pitcher Plant Captures Prey in Batches 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Dr. Bauer and her colleagues set up a pitcher plant in a laboratory, with a drip system hanging above that simulated raindrops. Observatory: A Wily Trap, Even for a Pitcher Plant 2012-06-18T21:39:31Z These are more commonly known as pitcher plants, because of the structure they use to catch prey. Pollutant turns fly-traps veggie 2012-06-13T23:46:37Z The pitcher plant is a genus of Nepenthes from South East Asia which attracts and traps insects in a pool of liquid which it then digests. Blue tit 'eaten' by killer plant 2011-08-05T11:30:09Z You'll find among the marshes The sundew and the pitcher plant; in shallows, Where the green scum floats languidly you'll find The water lily with white petals and A sickly perfume. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z But pitcher plants, as successful as they are at capturing insects for their nutrients, don't make a lot of sense at first glance. Pitcher Plant Captures Prey in Batches 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z There is a pitcher plant of California, which is so described: Above a funnel shaped stem, it flaunts a crimson banner. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z But in the rain, any insects sheltering there will be catapulted into the digestive fluid of the pitcher plant by the movement of the lid. Pollutant turns fly-traps veggie 2012-06-13T23:46:37Z Nepenthes carnivorous pitcher plants grow in nutrient-poor soil and rely on trapping insects to acquire enough nitrogen for growth. Bats roost in meat-eating plants 2011-01-26T00:46:25Z The pitcher plant and sundew, water lily Well typify the nature of most women Who must have blood or soul of man to live— Except you, Julia. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z It’s only a matter of time before 20 or more ants are all traipsing back to the pitcher plant. Pitcher Plant Captures Prey in Batches 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z As pitcher plants go, N. r. elongata is especially well suited to the bats. Carnivorous Plant Feasts on Bat Dung 2011-01-26T00:02:00Z Plants and flowers, 41, 42. azaleas, 52. camellias, 52. night-blooming cereus, 50. oxeye daisy, 44. peonies, 53. pitcher plant, 43. tulips, 53. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z The same is true for two other species of large meat-eating pitcher plant, N. lowii and N. macrophylla that are also visited by tree shrews. World's largest meat-eating plant prefers to eat... droppings 2010-03-10T09:29:00Z The pitcher plant is another native of Earth, and several varieties of it are found on Zenia and at least two other planets. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 Bauer hypothesizes that the batch capture strategy, while less reliable, is more favorable to pitcher plants once they reach a certain number of traps—some Nepenthes plants can have hundreds of pitchers. Pitcher Plant Captures Prey in Batches 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Just last year he and his colleagues described how some other pitcher plants rely on tree shrew feces for nutrients, and only then did he wonder whether bats might be fertilizing the plants. Carnivorous Plant Feasts on Bat Dung 2011-01-26T00:02:00Z Also the Indian pink, the rattlesnake plantain, the pink snake-mouth, monkshood, bloodroot, pitcher plant, and numerous others that formed a wonderful exhibit which it would take a long time to do justice to. Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks Mary arranged a safer place for her pitcher plant, out where insects might find its fatal honey. The Girl Scouts at Bellaire Or Maid Mary's Awakening As a rock garden adjunct it may be a small spot with the perpetually moist and moss-covered soil in which the native cypripediums and pitcher plants flourish. Making A Rock Garden But, he said, the paper shows that pitcher plants can capture ants in bulk, not necessarily that the plants have evolved to encourage bulk capture. Pitcher Plant Captures Prey in Batches 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Indeed, pitcher plants are turning out to be less carnivorous than biologists once believed—another species digests leaf litter. Carnivorous Plant Feasts on Bat Dung 2011-01-26T00:02:00Z The plant was, indeed, worth looking at; it was the pitcher plant, or side-saddle-flower,—every leaf of which is so formed as to hold water. Hatty and Marcus or, First Steps in the Better Path "And we never know what ours are going to be," remarked Madaline who was vainly trying to trap a feeble little fly, to feed to the pitcher plant. The Girl Scouts at Bellaire Or Maid Mary's Awakening The pitcher plant undoubtedly derives its principal nourishment from the insects it eats. Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 Bauer said, with the usual caveats about further research being required, that the ants and pitcher plants may be in much more of a mutualistic relationship, “an exchange rather than exploitation,” she said. Pitcher Plant Captures Prey in Batches 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z On one of the islands there is a wonderful plant called the pitcher plant. Big People and Little People of Other Lands Rather, like a pitcher plant you are, for hope and all young wings are drowned in you. Profiles from China Amongst the plants collected by Mr. Brown and his associates was a small one of a novel kind which we commonly called the pitcher plant. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Overflowing pitcher plants grew in irregular beds, on slender stems, lifting high their flat buds. Michael O'Halloran There’s a pitcher plant native to only two mountains in Borneo that has evolved to serve as a rodent’s toilet. Pitcher Plant Captures Prey in Batches 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Those plants are a variety of the well-known pitcher plant, or fly-trap, as they are sometimes called. Five Thousand Miles Underground Or, the Mystery of the Centre of the Earth We have been in a gharrie to Kamunting, a Chinese mining town of four thousand people, three miles from here, approached through a pretty valley full of pitcher plants with purple cups and lids. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither What of the bladderwort, in whose inflated traps tiny crustaceans are imprisoned, or the pitcher plant, that makes soup of its guests? Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Parts of it were quite bare, but where it was cracked and fissured there grew a most luxuriant vegetation, among which the pitcher plants were the most remarkable. The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Over and over he rolled, until, at length, he struck a little grassy hummock, bounced into the air, and right into the opening of a monster pitcher plant. Five Thousand Miles Underground Or, the Mystery of the Centre of the Earth |
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