/The Carnivorous Plant Named ‘Turtle Socks’ Has Been Eating Baby Salamanders for Lunch

The Carnivorous Plant Named ‘Turtle Socks’ Has Been Eating Baby Salamanders for Lunch

The northern pitcher plants in the Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada have developed the strange habit of eating baby salamanders.

What’s stranger than a plant nicknamed Turtle Socks by scientists? A plant named Turtle Socks that eats baby salamanders. The northern pitcher plant has long been known to science. Generally, they eat small insects, but lately about 1 in 5 norther pitcher plants in Ontario’s Algonquin Provincial Park have begun to include baby salamanders in their diets. Click the link to read more. https://www.livescience.com/65716-canadian-pitcher-plants-eat-salamanders.html