Creation-FB
The pitcher plant grows from swamp submerged roots every spring. Small leaves appear first, then flowers. The pitcher shaped leaves grow after the flowers fade. Each pitcher looks like a vase made out of one leaf with a hood (Operculum) like a tiny tarp draped over the opening.
These pitchers use an array of features to catch creeping insects or slugs. The plant absorbs nutrients such as nitrogen from the insects it catches. It comes in handy when the sandy soils are low on nutrients.
Each pitcher points to ingenious design. First, the specificity of its shape. Each pitcher’s hood exposes enough of the pitcher’s mouth to receive rainwater. This mixes with trapped insects to make a kind of soup broth. The hood’s underside and the pitcher’s lip manufacture nectar laced with a narcotic. When an insect from the forest floor takes some of the nectar, the drug makes them sluggish. Very fine inward and downward pointing hairs gently nudge its prey towards the plant’s tube. Once inside, a waxy inner lining proves too smooth for the insect to get out and the pitcher too narrow for takeoff, preventing flying insects from leaving.
On top of all this, the plant places its laced nectar with enticing scents on top of the pitcher to attract its lunch. It also secretes an enzyme into the bottom of the pitcher so its food can be properly digested.
Some might ask if this has any effect on bees, well it doesn’t. The pitcher only grows after all flower petals have fallen off, and the plant anticipates the bees’ bodies and behaviors (intelligent plants?). The flower petal and sepal arrangement permit only one bee entrance. On its way in, pollen from another flower brushes off the bee and onto the perfectly positioned part of the pistil that receives the pollen, the stigma.
One flower petal hangs from the stalk like an upside-down umbrella. It gives the bee a platform from which to collect pollen placed just overhead. Then in expert arrangement, the honeybee cannot exit the same path it entered. If it did it would pollinate the same flower. God designed a one-way exit flap door to let the bee out!
The pitcher plant is a very well planned out an engineered plant that requires and demands a Creator. There no other sufficient explanation.
