are colorful carnivorous plants that feed on insects by capturing them in cup-shaped structures that hang on tendrils from the main plant. Pitcher plants can be grown outdoors year-round in ...

The trap of an insect-eating Nepenthes pitcher plant, swarming with nectar-collecting ants. Research from the University of Bristol, UK, has found that, by 'switching off' its traps for part of ...

An insect lands on the open leaves of a Venus flytrap plant, drawn to an appealing scent. It noses around and accidentally brushes one of the trap’s trigger hairs. An action potential shoots across ...

Here's how to make your own carnivorous plant terrarium, including what and how to feed these hungry plants. Terrariums provide an attractive way to display plants that trap insects as their food ...

The pitcher plant Nepenthes x ventrata is gorgeous and popular with horticulturists, but it’s deadly for the insects that fall into the trap for which it is named. Yet the enzymes in the digestive ...

Carnivorous plants are interesting members of the plant world that have evolved to trap and digest animals, mostly insects, to survive. These plants thrive in places where the soil is poor in ...

The leaves have sticky tentacles that trap insects, but unlike other carnivorous plants, the dewstick does not digest the trapped insects. Instead, insects of the genus Pameridea prey on the ...