Les tomates sont carnivores

Professor Mark Chase, of Kew and Queen Mary, University of London, said: “The cultivated tomatoes and potatoes still have the hairs. Tomatoes in particular are covered with these sticky hairs. They do trap small insects on a regular basis. They do kill insects.

“We suspect in the domesticated varieties they are getting plenty of food through the roots from us so don’t get much benefit from trapping insects. In the wild they could be functioning in the way that could properly be considered carnivorous.”

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6727709/Tomatoes-can-eat-insects.html



See also:

The attack of the killer tomatoes (1978)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080391/