Carnivorous plants have nutritional needs that may not otherwise be met in their environments, one reader explains ...

Carnivorous plants are some of the most interesting lifeforms in the world. While most plants rely solely on sunlight and water to survive, carnivorous plants additionally digest insects for added ...

This catapults the ants off of the lid and into the pitcher trap below, where the creatures drown and are consumed by digestive juices, BBC News reports. The researchers used high-speed cameras and ...

In Florida’s wetlands the carnivorous pitcher plant is blurring the lines between predator and ally. In Florida’s wetlands, the carnivorous pitcher plant is blurring the lines between predator and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that the ...

Insects have plenty to beware when it comes to carnivorous plants. Add an acid-loving fungus to that list of dangers. Sundew plants have tentacle-like leaves that curl around and entrap flies and ...

Most plants get on just fine with sunshine, water, and half-decent soil. Carnivorous plants don’t have that option. They tend to live in places where the soil is so poor in nutrients that normal roots ...

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 ...

In the tropical rainforests of Borneo, it’s a bug-eat-bug world. Many seek protection from predators ten times their size, ...

The Cape sundew is a carnivorous plant found in South Africa. The plant’s leaves are covered in tiny red tentacles called glandular trichomes. The tentacles produce drops of sticky mucilage, a ...