The reasoning behind these rules makes sense once you know the unique natural history of carnivorous plants. Although the most well-known carnivorous plant, the Venus flytrap, is native only to a ...

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 ...

ENCINITASENCINITAS — A Venus flytrap will be among a slew of meat-eating plants coming to the San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas as part of the traveling exhibition Savage Gardens “The Real and ...

World Bog Day was celebrated around the world on July 23. I celebrated by hiking to an Alaskan bog, or muskeg, as they are colloquially known. This particular bog surrounded a small lake that was ...

When I teach ecology labs at Merrimack College, one of my favorite places to take students is the Pine Hole Bog in Andover’s Charles W. Ward Reservation. While walking along the quarter-mile boardwalk ...

Scientists in the United Kingdom are reporting evidence that consumption of insects contaminated with a toxic metal may be a factor in the mysterious global decline of meat-eating, or carnivorous, ...

Some plants have evolved fascinating ways to supplement their nutrient intake by trapping and digesting insects. These carnivorous plants have developed specialised mechanisms to capture prey, ...

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In the realm of botany, certain plants have developed in ways contrary to our imagination. While the majority depend on photosynthesis and nutrients from the soil, a special group called carnivorous ...