There's an old saying that everything in Australia wants to eat you – and this apparently includes plants, with the island a ...
Things weren’t looking good for the carnivorous plant Drosera silvicola. Scientists believed there were just two remaining ...
Nature has many lethal predators that would love to eat you. Most of these are animals. But what about plants? Well, there's ...
Master Gardener Ciscoe Morris has me investigating Sarracenia for this week’s garden study. Sarracenia is the name of a group of plants that, to put it bluntly, eat meat. Lots of animals eat plants ...
Carnivorous plants feed on insects and use a variety of sneaky and sometimes gruesome ways to lure, trap and devour their prey. Question: I was recently gifted a Venus fly trap plant and would like to ...
Most people are familiar with the infamous Venus flytrap because of its role in the science fiction film classic “Little Shop of Horrors,” but there are literally hundreds of other species of ...
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, ...
Conservationists have made a thrilling discovery just an hour's drive from Perth, uncovering a large, thriving patch of one of Western Australia's rarest carnivorous plants: Drosera silvicola.