What Is a Carnivorous Plant? Simply speaking, a carnivorous plant is one that eats insects as part of its regular diet. All ...

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 ...

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, ...

Plants nursing pitchers of digestive acid hang in baskets inches away from your head. You don’t actually have to travel ...

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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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...