You may or may not know this, but over the past few decades it has become increasingly popular to keep carnivorous plants! The most common probably being the Venus Flytrap (Dionaea Muscipula).
The Venus Flytrap is an amazing plant, generally growing in areas low in nutrients, it has adapted or "evolved" if you will. Since the Venus Flytrap grows in these low nutrient areas it gets its nutrients from insects that it digests. On the inside of each trap (Picture above) are small hairs called "trigger hairs", when touched these hairs give the signal for the trap to close, thus trapping the insect or other small animal inside. The Venus Flytrap is fun and easy to care for. I grow them, and I love it, I also grow carnivorous Pitcher Plants and Sundews, but that's another blog post, for another day...And I got to get to class ;) See ya
(P.S. For more information on Venus Flytraps, Here is a Wikipedia link :P http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_flytrap )
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