cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/biodiversity/p/721500/rice-plants-observed-trapping-and-killing-fall-armyworm-caterpillars

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.