Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fly inside the Venus flytrap at David Fefferman's home nursery in Mission Viejo. Fefferman is one of the largest collectors and ...

Follow the incredible transformation of a Sarracenia pitcher plant in this time-lapse, capturing 200 days of growth within a terrarium. Watch as the tiny seedling develops unique pitcher leaves, ...

Most plants get on just fine with sunshine, water, and half-decent soil. Carnivorous plants don’t have that option. They tend to live in places where the soil is so poor in nutrients that normal roots ...

Somewhere along the evolutionary timeline of bog-dwelling angiosperms, the plants gathered together and decided they wouldn’t take it any longer. No more would insects see plants as the ultimate salad ...

Looking for ways to get rid of insects bugging you at home? Carnivorous plants could be an environmentally friendly way to help manage your insect problem. Most of these plants in nature live in ...

Hirt's Gardens in Medina is one of the leading sources of carnivorous plants for growers around the world. "There's a tremendous demand for this stuff. We have difficulty getting enough of them," said ...

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About 200 million years ago, certain plants with strange leaves showed up on what became the eastern half of North America. Because they grew in marshy, infertile soil, they had to devise other ways ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Many people have a gleeful fascination with carnivorous plants, be that a Venus flytrap, pitcher plant, monkey cup or sundew. There’s something mysterious ...

Anna: They snap, they trap, they stick, and they suck. This is the bizarre world of carnivorous plants—leafy creatures that eat everything from insects, to crustaceans, to mammals. I’m Anna, and this ...