They look like they’re from another planet, and that’s part of their allure. With neon bright hues, these unworldly plants twist their foliage and branches into strange shapes – tubes, pitchers, even ...

The Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula is the most sophisticated of the carnivorous plants. Its traps snap shut in a fraction of a second, imprisoning prey in a cage of teeth that line the edges of the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Many people have a gleeful fascination with carnivorous plants, be that a Venus flytrap, pitcher plant, monkey cup or sundew. There’s something mysterious ...

A carnivorous pitcher plant (Nepenthes lowii) growing amongst ridge-top vegetation on Mount Murud, Sarawak. (Credit: Jeremiah Harris / CC BY-SA 3.0) It was reported a more than a decade ago that some ...

Carnivorous pitcher plants use falling raindrops to force prey to their doom, a new study finds. This finding suggests that pitcher plants are not merely motionless pitfall traps, but instead actively ...

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 ...

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A study suggests that pitcher plants tailor the smells they produce to woo particular kinds of insects. By Veronique Greenwood Pitcher plants supplement their diets with this one strange trick: eating ...

Not having luck growing carnivorous plants at home? Jacob Soule talks carnivorous plant soil requirements, pitcher plant varieties, sundew plant care, and more. In this episode of Mother Earth News ...

In the bogs of Ontario, Canada, certain plants have developed a taste for amphibians. According to the study authors, this is the first research showing that carnivorous pitcher plants, also known as ...