Dig Deeper is an ongoing series that delves into the stories behind plants and fungi you know and love. Meet experts from Kew ...

It is easy to feel sorry for the small bugs that end up as lunch for hunters like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps, and ...

Watch how a carnivorous trumpet pitcher is growing, eating, and digesting insects in this 4K time-lapse video.

Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that the plants can't absorb from the soil. Not only does this alien-looking ...

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

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

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 ...

Genlisea, or the “corkscrew” carnivorous plant, doesn’t wait above ground to hunt. Here’s how it traps tiny prey right ...