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Borneo Pitcher Plant, Borneo, 1999
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"Deadly beauty, the pitcher plant traps insects in its fluid-filled cup, where they drown. But Colobopsis ants that live in the tendril are unharmed."

—From "Ants and Plants," February 1999, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Mark W. Moffett

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