CARNIVOROUS (INSECTIVORES) PLANTS FEED ON INSECTS and other small animals to producing food in their leaves by photosynthesis The nutrients absorbed from trapped insects enable carnivores plants to thrive in acids, boggy soils that lack essential minerals especially nitrates , where most plants could not survive .All carnivores plants have some leaves modified as traps ;many use bright colours and scented nectar to attract prey .There are three types of traps .Pitcher plant , such as the monkey cup and cobra lily , have leaves modified as pitcher-shaped pitfall traps, half filled with water , once lured inside the mouth of the trap , insects lose their footing on the slippery surface , fall into the liquid , and either decompose or are digested . Venus fly traps use a spring -trap mechanism , when an inse