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

What is a Venus fly trap? The Venus fly trap is a carnivorous plant that is native to North and South Carolina. The plant gets its name from its ability to trap and eat flies and other small insects.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Conservationists are pushing for the Venus fly trap to be South Carolina's official carnivorous plant, joining other official items such as the state bird (Carolina Wren), state opera ...

Conservationists are pushing for the Venus fly trap to be South Carolina's official carnivorous plant, joining other official items such as the state bird (Carolina Wren), state opera (Porgy and Bess) ...

Scientists have determined how Venus fly trap plants (Dionaea muscipula) carry out their characteristic snapping mechanism, where they ‘snap shut’ when an insect or an arachnid enters. The snapping ...

While most plants derive nutrients from soil, some trap and consume living creatures for their primary source of sustenance. Now a special exhibit at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers offers a ...

Anna: They snap, they trap, they stick, and they suck. This is the bizarre world of carnivorous plants—leafy creatures that eat everything from insects, to crustaceans, to mammals. I’m Anna, and this ...

When we think of carnivorous plants, we usually think of the clamping maw of the Venus Fly trap, or the rodent-luring pitcher plants — plants that keep their traps safely above ground where we can see ...

Many people may be familiar with the sinister jaws of Venus flytraps or even the bulbous pouches of pitcher plants, but the truth is that those species barely scratch the surface of the wonderfully ...

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 ...