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This is one of six photos I had to take for my Digital Imaging class over the summer. For my final series, I decided to take macro (as close as I could get with my lens, anyway) shots of carnivorous plants in the greenhouse at my college.

This plant is a rather large pitcher plant (about the length of my hand, heel to fingertip!); water collects inside the modified leaves of this plant, which act as pools to insects when they are looking for food. The lip of the plant is coated with a slippery sap that, when the insects land on it, lets the insect slip down into the water and be digested.

See the entire series:

Description
This is one of six photos I had to take for my Digital Imaging class over the summer. For my final series, I decided to take macro (as close as I could get with my lens, anyway) shots of carnivorous plants in the greenhouse at my college.

This plant is a rather large pitcher plant (about the length of my hand, heel to fingertip!); water collects inside the modified leaves of this plant, which act as pools to insects when they are looking for food. The lip of the plant is coated with a slippery sap that, when the insects land on it, lets the insect slip down into the water and be digested.

See the entire series: