flypaper in English

noun
1
sticky, poison-treated strips of paper that are hung indoors to catch and kill flies.

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1. Butterworts are the carnivorous plant equivalent of flypaper

2. As a result, they are grouped among the "passive flypaper traps" along with Pinguicula, Drosophyllum, Roridula, Stylidium and Triphyophyllum peltatum.

3. 10 Similarly, a digital clock is powered with the same type of microbial fuel cell, collecting its prey with flypaper.

4. 5 Types of Carnivorous Plants and How They Trap briefly explains all of these different trapping methods: pitfall traps, flypaper traps, lobster traps, snap traps.The Bladderwort is the one carnivorous plant that uses the method of suction trapping