Question
I dropped a small piece of meal worm into an adult heliamphora pitcher, then sprayed some water into the plant.  When I looked into it, the small piece was gone from sight, and the water hadn't built up in the pitcher.
Do Heliamphora pitchers act like a funnel, and just help to send the food down into the root, which then digest it?

Answer
Hi John,

Heliamphora don't produce digestive enzymes.  They rely strictly on bacterial decay.  They also don't produce their own fluid in the pitchers.  It's all from rainwater.  On the tepui's they grow on in Venezuela, they receive constant rainfall.

Good Growing!

Jeff Dallas
Sarracenia Northwest
http://www.cobraplant.com