The deadly fluid of pitcher plants
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“Pitcher plants use a variety of creative strategies to capture insects, including slippery waxes, vibrating lids, and bizarrely textured fluids.”
Why It's Weird
The natural world continues to prove that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. The moderate weirdness score suggests this is unusual but not completely unprecedented.
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