Bladderworts are aquatic carnivorous plants that use suction to trap their prey. They have tiny, bladder-like sacs under water with a trapdoor mechanism. When small creatures like water fleas swim ...

This is a scanning electron micrograph of the bladder of Utricularia gibba, the humped bladderwort plant (color added). The plant is a voracious carnivore, with its tiny, 1-millimeter-long ...

Carnivorous plants can be found on every continent except Antarctica and there are many species native to the UK including sundews, butterworts and bladderworts. Common butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris ...