Sundews, pitcher plants, flytraps and other critter-trapping plants have done extremely well for themselves, through millions of years, ensnaring small prey and developing relationships with ...

This 35-year-old plant shop often carries some carnivorous plants such as Venus flytraps, monkey cups and other trumpet-shaped greenery. Because the supply goes quick, it’s best to check the ...

Carnivorous plants come in a variety of shapes and colors—and it’s often their looks that help them attract their prey. However, these floral tricksters may use a different scene to attract ...

A newly discovered pitcher plant keeps its hunger for insects on the down low: It’s the first such plant known to grow working traps underground. Martin Dančák, a plant taxonomist, and Wewin ...

Venus flytraps and other insect-eating plants show just how wild botany can be. A newly described species of pitcher plant from the island of Borneo is shaking up what scientists know about ...

Tropical pitcher plants from the genus Nepenthes are carnivorous plants with large, fluid-filled tubes that they use to trap a wide array of prey, including insects such as ants, and arachnids ...

First record of functional underground traps in a pitcher plant: Nepenthes pudica (Nepenthaceae), a new species from North Kalimantan, Borneo. PhytoKeys, 2022; 201: 77 DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.201.82872 ...

Some carnivorous plants seem to tailor the cocktail of scents they emit to the prey they want to attract, which shows that their smell plays a key role in luring insects and other creatures ...

Some of the pitcher plants used in Dr. Gaume and colleagues’ research are native to North America — in fact, they can be found in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Dr.