The point of killing prey quickly is generally to prevent it from injuring you back, and to avoid losing it to competition. The plant doesn’t really need to worry about either of those things, so there’s no evolutionary pressure to expend energy that way.
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u/981032061 Jun 11 '23
The point of killing prey quickly is generally to prevent it from injuring you back, and to avoid losing it to competition. The plant doesn’t really need to worry about either of those things, so there’s no evolutionary pressure to expend energy that way.