Carnivorous or insectivorous plants are so called because, unlike other plants, they have specialized in catching insects, in particular flies, bedbugs, ants, mosquitoes, etc. that digested, they supply it with nitrogenous substances that they do not find in the arid lands on which they grow. The correct definition requires that, for a plant to be called "carnivorous", it must necessarily be able to kill and digest the unlucky prey. read more