- protist ( @protist@mander.xyz ) English90•1 month ago
They can’t live on soil nutrients in soil where there are no nutrients, which is where they evolved
- CarbonIceDragon ( @CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ) English12•1 month ago
This makes me wonder: if you give them nicer soil than they evolved in, can they still use those nutrients instead, or do they require insects to survive now?
- flora_explora ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) English3•1 month ago
I guess this depends on if they lost functional roots or not. If they are like bromeliads that lost water uptake in their roots (which instead take up water and nutrients through trichomes in their tank) then they probably don’t care about how much nutrients are in the soil. I’d think that as most bromeliads are epiphytes without any real type of soil that that is the reason they lost this functionality. And that many species of carnivorous plants are usually just growing in nutrient-poor soils. So eating animals would just be a way to get more/sufficient nutrients but that it might be still useful for them to have functional roots.
But this is only speculation. Maybe someone else has more tangible info?
- Pandantic [none/username] ( @Pandantic@midwest.social ) English22•1 month ago
And sometimes, just sometimes, deer eat meat. Nature is wild.
- J'Pol ( @jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org ) English11•1 month ago
I’ve seen a horse eat a duckling.
- filcuk ( @filcuk@lemmy.zip ) English9•1 month ago
Butterflies can drink sweat and blood
- Ellia Plissken ( @tilefan@lemm.ee ) English8•1 month ago
doesn’t it have to get minerals or something from the insects it eats? if you fertilize them they’ll die
- TheReturnOfPEB ( @TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ) English4•1 month ago
There is no free will. That And Venus’ Flytrap privilege and intersectionality is what forms them.