From sticky “flypaper” to lightning-fast suction, carnivorous plants have evolved various ingenious traps for finding the ...

Carnivorous plants look like botanical oddities, but their behavior is not a gimmick. It is a precise evolutionary solution ...

How and why does botanical carnivory keep evolving? How and why does botanical carnivory keep evolving? It turns out that when any of the basic things that most plants need aren’t there, some plants ...

The Florida Panhandle is teeming with carnivorous plant species. In fact, there are more here than any other place in the United States. This isn’t surprising considering that they thrive in wet, ...

Plants that feed on meat and animal droppings have evolved at least ten times through evolutionary history Riley Black - Science Correspondent A Cape sundew wraps its sticky leaves around a helpless ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. An unassuming herb found on the western coast of North America ...

A fly inside the Venus flytrap at David Fefferman's home nursery in Mission Viejo. Fefferman is one of the largest collectors and growers of carnivorous plants in Southern California. (Dania Maxwell / ...

The reasoning behind these rules makes sense once you know the unique natural history of carnivorous plants. Although the most well-known carnivorous plant, the Venus flytrap, is native only to a ...

This story appears in the March 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. A hungry fly darts through the pines in North Carolina. Drawn by what seems like the scent of nectar from a flowerlike patch ...

They call themselves Skippy, a strangely cheerful name for a group devoted to a fairly creepy endeavor (at least from this animal’s perspective) — the care and breeding of carnivorous plants. Yes, ...