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FT's have obvious, and much fun to watch, movement.
I am wondering, does any other CP have movement?

Some sundews slowly curl their tentacles of their prey and I believe Aldrovanda have a similar trapping system to venus fly traps... as for others I'm not sure. I know of a non-carnivorous plant that folds its leaves together when it picks up vibrations.

Drosera Burmanii has snap tentacles that move rather quickly when trigered, they are the dewless stubs at the end of the leaves. I think the ones called bladderworts are like aquatic-mini venus flytraps.

I'd thought of utricularia (bladderworts); they do actively move as their bladders open and create a vaccume which sucks stuff in... they are so tiny it's difficult to see, though. Fascinating nonetheless!

Haha yup, I saw that in a CP book, tiny pictures some pretty cool 3d pictures and they looked like little VFTs!

Utrics are said to have the most evolved / complex trapping mechanism of all CPs. Some of the largest traps can get to ~1/4" and are easy to observe. Check out U. arnhemica or U. humboldtii.

VFT's move, utricularias, droseras,Drosophyllum, pinguiculas(some of them, like moctezumae), i don't know any other CP.

About the utricularias, i'm growing 2 utricularias both U.inflata in petri-dish with rain water, and i'm using a light bulb for light. They are very interesting plants to look at with a digital microscope. i took some pictures of them, search for microscopic pics or something!

Also i have been working with larvae, which is easy to get with all the trays i use with my plants. and i put them with the utrics, i'm working on recording a microscopic video of a utricularia catching an insect, i haven't been lucky yet to see that in person, but everytime i look at the utrics there's always a larvae in a trap. I hope i'm able someday to see how it catch it, and record a video. Larvaes are the food for my utrics because mosquitoes lay their eggs in the water all the time, so they have a feast all the time!
Here's a pic from weeks ago, the head is stuck in the trap, i will be taking more pics soon! :

Utrics have a vacuum/lobster pot trap (depends on species), some sundews move tentacles/leaves, some butterworts can move their leaves to make a "pool" of enzymes under the prey.

drosophyllum dont move