An insect-eating plant has been identified on North America's Pacific coast for the first time in 20 years

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What's good news for science is bad news for insects.

The Triantha occidentalis was identified by researchers from the University of British Columbia and University of Wisconsin-Madison. The plant, a species of the false asphodel, is a delicate plant that traps insects with sticky hairs on its flowering stem, according to a news release from UBC.

"Carnivorous plants have fascinated people since the Victorian era because they turn the usual order of things on its head: this is a plant eating animals," co-author Dr. Sean Graham said in the release."We're thrilled to have identified one growing right here in our own backyard on the west coast." Researchers identified the plant to be carnivorous by using fruit flies labeled with nitrogen-15 isotopes, the release said.

 

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