R[ule]ice is a carnivorous plant

cross-posted from: piefed.ca/…/rice-plants-observed-trapping-and-kil… Rice plants and Venus flytraps share something in common that was not scientifically documented until recently. Using a faint smell to lure caterpillars into a trap, rice plants killed early-stage fall armyworm larvae by trapping them in a spikelet, the part at the end of a rice panicle where individual grains develop.