{"id":114133,"date":"2020-02-08T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/for-peats-sake-how-to-protect-bogs-alys-fowler\/"},"modified":"2020-02-08T18:43:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T11:43:54","slug":"for-peats-sake-how-to-protect-bogs-alys-fowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/for-peats-sake-how-to-protect-bogs-alys-fowler\/","title":{"rendered":"For peat\u2019s sake: how to protect bogs | Alys Fowler"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWe can all help to preserve these precious landscapesIn a shallow pool amid a mossy landscape is a trap, a tiny triggered vacuum that sucks in unexpected prey at great speed, absorbs what it needs, then ejects the empty husk of its victim. If you\u2019ve sunk and splashed your way through a peat bog in summer, you may have caught a glimpse of the plant\u2019s more alluring feature, the showy yellow flowers that wave above the water.Bladderworts are free-floating aquatic plants that sink back in winter to tight buds, washed along in the currents of wilder weather. They are not alone in their bizarre eating habits. There are sundews whose hundreds of pin-shaped tentacles wrap their sticky digestive juices around their prey, and butterworts, which possess the strongest glue in nature to trap hapless insects wandering over them, among the heathers and layers of sphagnum moss that make up peatland. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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