Dani took these just hours after she was given her first real camera. These have been severely underpixelated for quick and cheap loading on your browser, of course. It shows a common house fly in the ever-tightening grip of a sundew plant. Just to have some photos on the photographic page…
Here the fly gets trapped by the sticky juices
The fly's struggling draws strands of glue around itself
The plant responds to the fly's struggles by curling up
There can be no escape
In three days' time, the finger will let go, dry up, let the wind take the empty shell, and then it starts producing juice again.
