About Utricularia:

• Utricularia (bladderwort) is a genus of carnivorous plantsin the family Lentibulariaceae.
• Currently, 220 listed species occupying temperate and tropical habitats throughout the world, it is the most diverse and widespread genus of carnivorous plants.
• They are characterized by small hollow sacs that actively capture and digest tiny animals such as insect larvae, aquatic worms, and water fleas.
• Bladderworts can be found in lakes, streams, and waterlogged soils around the world, and several areinvasive species that have spread to novel habitats.
• Bladderwort plants lack roots and usually have a horizontal floating stembearing simple or divided leaves.
• Small carnivorous bladders are produced along the stem.
• Bladderworts trap small organisms in their tiny bladders, which have a trap door that is triggered by hairs on the door.
  • When prey comes in contact with the hairs, the door opens in a millisecond, sucking the animal in and closing in about 2.5 milliseconds. 
• The flowers are bisexual and bilaterally symmetrical.

About Keoladeo National Park:

• The Keoladeo National Park, formerly known as the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, is located in the eastern part of Rajasthan. 
• Declared a national park in 1981, it was renamed Keoladeo for the ancient temple in the park dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva. 
• It is strategically located in the middle of the Central Asian migratory flyway.
• It is spread across 2,873 hectares of woodlands, grasslands, wetlands, and woodland swamps. 
• Vegetation: The vegetation here is of a dry deciduous type, with medium-sized trees and shrubs found inside its forest. Some of the trees which can be commonly spotted inside the park are kadam, jamun, babul, kandi, ber, kair, and piloo.
• Fauna:
  • Keoladeo is home to more than 360 species of permanent and migratory birds.
  • During the annual period of migratory visitors (about October to March), birds from throughout the world can be found in the park.
  • Among those wintering in the park are waterfowl from Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, China and Siberia, including species such as gadwalls, shovellers, common teals, tufted ducks, pintails, white spoonbills, Asian open-billed storks, Oriental ibises, and the rare Siberian crane. 
  • The park is also home to a range of mammals and reptiles—including pythons and other snakes, deer, sambars, blackbucks, jackals, monitor lizards, and fishing cats—as well as some 50 species of fish and 25 species of butterflies.
• It is a Ramsar site and also a UNESCO World Heritage Site.