Discover 7 fascinating carnivorous plants with unique traps that catch and digest insects for survival in nutrient-poor ...

In the wild, Venus flytraps are the size of a lima bean and pose no harm to anything other than insects. Once inside, the insect is doomed to become plant food, Anderson said.

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 ...

ROBOTS that mimic the Venus flytrap could run on live insects and spiders, snatching and digesting them for fuel. Now two prototypes have been developed that employ smart materials to rapidly ...

The flytrap is a fragile plant that needs fire to survive. Wildfires in the pine forests where they grow clear off the denser overgrowth to provide the abundant sunlight the plants need.