'Insect aquaplaning' on a superhydrophilic hairy surface: How Heliamphora nutans Benth. pitcher plants capture prey

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1753, 2013, Pages

  Bauer, Ulrike ^a   Scharmann, Mathias ^b   Skepper, Jeremy ^a   Federle, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carnivorous plants; Heliamphora; Insect aquaplaning; Prey capture; Superhydrophilic; Trichomes

Indexed keywords

CARNIVOROUS PLANT; DICOTYLEDON; INSECT; PREY CAPTURE; TRICHOME;

FORMICIDAE; HELIAMPHORA; HELIAMPHORA NUTANS; HEXAPODA; NEPENTHES; SARRACENIACEAE;

EID: 84872171996     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2569     Document Type: Article

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