What Is a Carnivorous Plant? Simply speaking, a carnivorous plant is one that eats insects as part of its regular diet. All plants take in carbon dioxide and use sunlight to convert it to food to help ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plants that feed on meat and animal droppings have evolved at least ten times through evolutionary history Riley Black - Science Correspondent A Cape sundew wraps its sticky leaves around a helpless ...

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 ...

MENTION CARNIVOROUS PLANTS and chances are likely that someone will say, “Feed me, Seymour,” the kitschy refrain sung by Audrey II, a plant that feeds on humans, in the musical “Little Shop of Horrors ...

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 ...

North Carolina has 36 carnivorous plant species, including 15 native to the Wilmington area. The Green Swamp Preserve boasts a remarkable diversity of carnivorous plants, with at least 14 different ...

Peggy Singlemann visits Dr. Phil Sheridan at Meadowview Biological Research Station in Woodford to learn about pitcher plants and explore a rare gravel bog ecosystem where these unique native plants ...