There's an old saying that everything in Australia wants to eat you – and this apparently includes plants, with the island a ...

Conservationists have uncovered a large patch of insect-trapping sundews just an hour outside of Perth on Whadjuk country.

Things weren’t looking good for the carnivorous plant Drosera silvicola. Scientists believed there were just two remaining ...

In the Paruna Wildlife Sanctuary, they discovered a large population of the extremely rare carnivorous plant Drosera ...

Bright-coloured flowers to attract insects. Blue blobs at the end of the tentacles to further dazzle unsuspecting creatures. And when they finally descend upon the sticky surface, the tentacles roll ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We studied the physical and temporal isolation of two arthropod guilds interacting with Drosera anglica Huds., a terrestrial carnivorous plant ...

Finding a sundew plant with a healthy supply of insect food may not seem suspicious. After all, carnivorous plants are famed for supplementing their diet with meat to compensate for nutrient-poor soil ...

I AM not aware that the Drosera has been noticed to capture so large an insect as the dragon-fly, Pyrrhosoma minium. Passing a pond-side on a bright June morning, where this insect wasflying ...

A new plant species has been hailed as the first to be "discovered over Facebook" after a photo posted by an amateur researcher was spotted by scientists on the social media network. The huge ...