Former bug-eating plants, which evolved to feed on animal droppings instead, have a more nutritious diet than their carnivorous cousins, a new study finds. When you purchase through links on our ...

Insect-eating carnivorous plants that evolved to feed on animal droppings have a more nutritious diet than their carnivorous ... and even a small bird known as the mountain blackeye. To do ...

Pitfall traps: Deep, slippery leaves (as seen in pitcher plants) where prey fall and are digested by enzymes. Snap traps: ...

Sarracenia pitcher plants, found in eastern North America, look like trumpet-shaped flowers. But the “flowers” are modified leaves that form a cup containing digestive enzymes and entrap insects.

Life Carnivorous plants use a sneaky trick for luring different bugs to eat. Some carnivorous plants seem to tailor the cocktail of scents they emit to the prey they want to attract, which shows ...

TIME AND AGAIN, plants have evolved the ability to eat animals. From Madagascar to North Carolina, wildly different kinds of flora have figured out how to thrive in nutrient-poor soils by adding ...

Pitcher plants supplement their diets with this one strange trick: eating flesh.Usually found growing in relatively poor soil, the plants sprout pitcher-shaped cups with pretty, frilly tops that ...

While the carnivorous cravings of most flesh-eating plants are limited to small insects, one exception is the pitcher plant. It can consume anything that fits in its mouthincluding a mouse!

ENCINITAS — 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 &#… ...

These plants use nectar to lure insects and even small vertebrates, such as frogs, lizards, and birds. Once inside the pitcher, the prey cannot escape the slick walls and is slowly digested by the ...