Carnivorous plants consume other living creatures for their food. Learn facts about growing Venus flytraps, pitcher plants and more.

This Indonesian pitcher plant is recognizable by its white ring, which specifically attracts termites. As the herbivorous insects gather to munch on the tiny pale hairs, some inevitably fall into ...

A white-topped pitcher plant is seen Monday, June 14, 2013 at a pitcher plant bog near the Weeks Bay Reserve in Baldwin County, Ala. . (Bill Starling/[email protected]) ...

Carnivorous plants are rare, but now botanists say they've found one that's long been overlooked. It lives just outside Vancouver, British Columbia, and in other parts of the Pacific Northwest.

Plants that feed on meat and animal droppings have evolved at least ten times through evolutionary history Riley Black - Science Correspondent A Cape sundew wraps its sticky leaves around a ...

The Tarkiln Bayou Preserve is home to four types of pitcher plants: red, purple, white-topped, and parrot. Red pitchers are considered a designated species and rare.

First record of functional underground traps in a pitcher plant: Nepenthes pudica (Nepenthaceae), a new species from North Kalimantan, Borneo PhytoKeys , 2022; 201: 77 DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys ...

A newly discovered pitcher plant keeps its hunger for insects on the down low: It’s the first such plant known to grow working traps underground.. Martin Dančák, a plant taxonomist, and Wewin ...

One species, the white-topped pitcher plant, once occurred in five Georgia counties but no longer can be found in the state. Another species, the green pitcher plant, is on the federal endangered ...