Plants That Bite Back

Past event
Apr 15, 2023, 10 AM to 12 PM

PLANTS THAT BITE BACK.
Sticky mucilage, sucking organisms, gland-tipped hairs—the trapping mechanisms to capture prey for carnivorous plants!
SATURDAY, April 15, 10-12 (at the Hort Farm)

Have you ever wondered about those plants that eat insects? How they trap those insects? Biologist Lindsey Pett will highlight the major groups of carnivorous plants including North American Pitcher Plants, Tropical Pitcher Plants, Bladderworts, and the Venus Flytrap. She will explain the general ecology and keeping of Carnivorous Plants, and review proper care on watering, substrate, light, and dormancy. And she will bring some of the plants from her collection. Q&A. And you get to take home your own carnivorous plant! EMG-E

Members FREE, Non-members $10

Please register in advance at:
https://fhfvt.org/events/plants-that-bite-back/

Presenter's bio: Lindsey Pett's interest in carnivorous aquatic and terrestrial plants led to a master's degree at SUNY Plattsburgh. She studied wetland plant functional group diversity impact on nutrient storage and aquatic/terrestrial invertebrate diversity. She has a PhD in the Biology Department at UVM. She is a member of the New England Carnivorous Plant Society and laboratory manager and researcher in the Earth and Environmental Sciences department at Norwich University.

This program takes place at the UVM Horticulture Farm, 65 Green Mountain Drive, So. Burlington.

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The University of Vermont Horticulture Research Center, Green Mountain Drive, South Burlington, VT

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