Watch how a carnivorous trumpet pitcher is growing, eating, and digesting insects in this 4K time-lapse video.
Carnivorous plants look like botanical oddities, but their behavior is not a gimmick. It is a precise evolutionary solution ...
Carnivorous plants are unique species that have adapted to survive in nutrient-poor environments by capturing and digesting insects and other small organisms. Instead of relying solely on the soil for ...
From sticky “flypaper” to lightning-fast suction, carnivorous plants have evolved various ingenious traps for finding the ...
The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is probably the best known of the more than 600 species of carnivorous plants, which absorb nutrients from prey rather than through their roots. The flytrap grows ...
Tucked into bogs, you’ll find one of Minnesota’s most unusual — and carnivorous — plants, which is easiest to spot this time of year when reddish-purple flowers tower above their unusual leaves.
Carnivorous pitcher plants attract ants with their sweet but toxic nectar, turning its flowers into a deadly trap.
Peggy Singlemann visits Dr. Phil Sheridan at Meadowview Biological Research Station in Woodford to learn about pitcher plants and explore a rare gravel bog ecosystem where these unique native plants ...