Trick and Treat

As the poor insect goes from door to door looking for a treat, perhaps a lovely piece of half rotten meat (isn't that what these look like?) he suddenly finds that he is the treat, swallowed whole and unsuspecting by one of the Halloween creature from the Little Bog of Horrors. Horrible trick, Isn't it?

These are Purple Pitcher Plants (wonderful alliteration) growing in the quaking bog at Summer Lake in Skagit County, Washington. They have become established there and grow in huge clumps of hundreds of pitchers. Each pitcher is lined with hairs and filled with water to catch insects.

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