Over the course of a week or so, the plant dines on its catch. He's the editor of the International Carnivorous Plant Society's newsletter. Prey includes a number of nectar-loving insects including flies, butterflies, and moths. Carnivorous plants look and act like other green plants - well, most of the time. All green plants make sugars through a process called photosynthesis.
Plants use the sugars to make food and nectar.
Nitrogen is a nutrient that they can't obtain any other way. The most common and widespread. Almost all green plants on our planet get nitrogen from the soil. Carnivorous plants can't. They live in places where nutrients are hard or almost impossible to extract from the soil because of its acidity.