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The Venus flytrap is different from most plants. It has a special diet made up largely of meat. The carnivorous plant feeds mostly on small invertebrates such as spiders and ants that it liquifies ...

North Carolina’s iconic bug-eating plant – the Venus flytrap – knows which bugs not to eat in order to be pollinated, according to a Feb. 8 story in National Geographic. Researchers have for the first ...

Many flowering plants are in happy, mutually beneficial relationships with animals that suck up sweet nectar from their blooms and, in exchange, carry their pollen to far-off plants, allowing them to ...

While most people are familiar with Venus flytraps and their snapping jaws, there is still a lot that scientists don't know about the biology of these carnivorous plants. Researchers have for the ...

Out of the hundreds of species of carnivorous plants found across the planet, none attract quite as much fascination as the Venus flytrap. The plants are native to just a small section of North ...

Poking their snapping jaws up from flowerpots across the globe, the curious nature of Venus flytraps and their carnivorous diets bites at every child's imagination. Although familiar in our own homes, ...

Q. I have heard that it is illegal to remove the little carnivorous plants called Venus flytraps from the wild. Are they protected by state wildlife agencies or the Endangered Species Act? A. Last ...

The Venus flytrap is one of the world’s most iconic plants, partially in thanks to the 1986 cult classic Little Shop of Horrors. But while we all know Venus flytraps don’t eat people, few people know ...

Most of us were probably a bit incredulous the first time we heard about the Venus flytrap: There’s such a thing as a carnivorous plant? One that actually can clench its jaw-like protuberance around ...

When my Florida plant-geek industry friends learned that I was moving to Wilmington, N.C., they knew of the place not as home of the Azalea Festival, or the new residence of my kids/grandkids, but ...