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

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

False asphodel, a flower that grows in the high-altitude wetlands of western North America, gets much of its nutrients from eating insects. Western false asphodel has pretty white flowers and hairs on ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Carnivorous plants come in a variety of shapes and colors—and it ...

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 ...

Carnivorous plants have fed our imaginations since the dawn of our time. Charles Darwin called the most popular variety, the Venus flytrap, the “most wonderful plant on earth.” Even the film The ...

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 ...

One species of ant-eating carnivorous plant has a special trick up its sleeve, new research has discovered. The type of carnivorous plant, the pitcher plant of the species Nepenthes gracilis, lines ...

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 ...

Fuzzy sundews that trap bugs in their sticky tendrils, Venus flytraps that snap shut on insects and fingers and tropical pitcher plants that catch flies in their protuberances — all of these and more ...