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Elastic sugar chains let a pitcher plant's fluid grip insects harder the faster they struggle
Raffles' pitcher plant traps insects in fluid whose elastic force measured 10,000 times its viscosity under simulated kicks. Field work in Borneo adds that the trap catches best at middling fluid levels and that the plant restores them within days.
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