The Cape sundew is a carnivorous plant found in South Africa. The plant’s leaves are covered in tiny red tentacles called glandular trichomes. The tentacles produce drops of sticky mucilage, a ...

Why do Venus flytraps and pitcher plants trap and digest insects if they are fully capable of photosynthesis? If this is an adaptation to ensure there is always food, then why don’t other plants do ...

A plant that snaps its jaws shut, digests its prey with acid, and hunts insects challenges everything we think we know about ...

Carnivorous plants have nutritional needs that may not otherwise be met in their environments, one reader explains ...

It is one of about 800 known species of carnivorous plants Venus flytrap is native to North and South Carolina Closure triggered by a softening of the trap's cell walls Trap can snap shut on an insect ...