The open ‘mouth’ of a floating humped bladderwort plant (Utricularia gibba) took first prize in Olympus’ microscope image competition. Igor Siwanowicz, a researcher from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, took the winning image of the carnivorous plant, beating more than 2,000 entries from 71 countries. See gallery
News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
Timelapse of a the carnivorous plant, known as a sundew or drosera capensis, folding over a fly. This is my first attempt at time lapsing one of my plants. Sorry it is jumpy in a few places, the camera occasionally focused on other parts of the plant or the fence behind, so I had to chop those frames out and reposition the camera so it would stay in focus. Notice just over 3/4 into the movie, on the leaf to the right, the tentacles move inwards aswell so its obviously caught something.
Not sure if this kind of clip makes any sense. Anyways, here are 5 different patches from clean to extreme.