Concluding Remarks

We think it works by attracting fruit flies with a sweet-smelling syrup on the ends of the hairs on the stems, then trapping the fly once it gets stuck. The fly lands on the stem and gets stuck on the sticky hairs, and then starves and dies. The plant then slowly pulls the stem and fly towards its center, where the fly drops down and decomposes where the roots can absorb it. We saw a few fruit flies that had gotten stuck in this way, and the stems had started to curl inward towards the center of the plant. This leads us to believe that the plant works in such a way. The hairs also glowed under UV light.