Carnivorous plants feed on insects and use a variety of sneaky and sometimes gruesome ways to lure, trap and devour their prey. Question: I was recently gifted a Venus fly trap plant and would like to ...

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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 ...

Halloween is only a few days away. Ghouls, goblins, ghosts, witches and man-eating plants will be roaming the streets. Well, maybe not the man-eating plants, as in Little Shop of Horrors, but possibly ...

Carnivorous plants survive in nutrient-poor areas by trapping insects for food. Here are 10 well-known species from around ...

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) ...

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 ...

Director of the NC Cooperative Extension – New Hanover County center at the Arboretum When my Florida plant-geek industry friends learned that I was moving to Wilmington, N.C., they knew of the place ...

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 ...

Venus flytraps have fascinated biologists for centuries, however, the molecular underpinnings of their carnivorous lifestyle remain largely unknown. Researchers have now characterized gene expression, ...

A giant carnivorous plant with a trapped rodent inside, which has been discovered by a team of scientists in the central Philippines, and named after Sir David Attenborough Credit: STEWART MCPHERSON A ...

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