Carnivorous plants consume other living creatures for their food. Learn facts about growing Venus flytraps, pitcher plants ...

I had my first encounter with a carnivorous plant when I was about 10. My dad, thinking it would be a good father-daughter project, brought a Venus fly trap home, ...

Carnivorous plants have developed a terrific array of weird and wonderful adaptations that help them flourish in nutrient-poor environments. Enter the world of predatory plants (if you dare) and ...

Carnivorous plants are some of the most fascinating species in nature. Plants like Venus flytraps, pitcher plants, sundews, and others get their nutrients by catching flying insects with sticky ...

Kochi: A team of multi-institutional researchers discovered a novel method for synthesising silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) ...

Thousands of carnivorous and rare tropical plants are hidden inside greenhouses on a dusty Hill Country road. For the first ...

The pitcher plant Nepenthes x ventrata is gorgeous and popular with horticulturists, but it’s deadly for the insects that fall into the trap for which it is named. Yet the enzymes in the digestive ...

It is also home to a number of other species of carnivorous plants, less famous and more widespread but no less bizarre. You can find pitcher plants with leaves like champagne flutes, into which ...

Here’s how. Plants can talk. Yes, really. Here’s how. Horrific summer travels? These tales are worse. Horrific summer travels? These tales are worse. New type of carnivorous plant found in ...

“We mostly think about plant signaling as targeting sight and smell, but here these plants are not so much giving a ‘shout out’ but a ‘shout back’ to the bats to come on over,” Rohan Clarke, an ...

If you’ve ever wanted to experience a tiny slice of life from a bug’s vantage point, now’s your chance. The University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum hosts “Savage Gardens: The ...