A study suggests that pitcher plants tailor the smells they produce to woo particular kinds of insects. By Veronique Greenwood Pitcher plants supplement their diets with this one strange trick: eating ...

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A new kind of greenery is taking root in the Triad, and it bites! Carnivorous Plants by Kenny Coogan, Winston-Salem’s largest carnivorous plant nursery, will make its debut at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that the ...

On the soggy floor of one of the only remaining intact forests on the island nation of Singapore, the egg-sized heads of carnivorous creatures emerge from decaying leaves. They appear to be belching, ...

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 ...

The chain of events in trapping and digestion is best understood for the Venus flytrap, the most scrutinized of carnivorous plants. If an unwary insect settles on one of its traps and touches one ...

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Sarracenia pitcher plants, found in bogs throughout eastern North America, look like trumpet-shaped flowers, often in purplish or reddish hues. But looks can be deceiving. The striking "flowers" are ...

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 ...