After sensing contact, the plant’s snap-tentacles take just 400 milliseconds before springing into action. When they do, they bend at a flex point halfway down and swiftly fling a fly or ant ...

Scientists have discovered a carnivorous plant that grows prey-trapping contraptions underground, feeding off subterranean creatures such as worms, larvae and beetles. The newly found species of ...

Tours are common at California Carnivores, here a group from Campbell, Calif. tour the nursery Wednesday May 19, 2010. Peter D'Amato is the king of carnivores plants and the owner of California ...

The pitcher plant is the world's second largest and can grow to more than 4 feet tall, with a pitcher-shaped structure filled with liquid. The plant secretes nectar around its mouth to lure rats ...

Bill Smith tends to blooming pitcher plants in "The Bog" -- a 30-foot-by-10-foot plant habitat on his family farm in Warren Grove -- that houses what Smith calls "the biggest display garden of ...

The insectivorous, sometimes carnivorous diet is crucial for the plants' survival says McPherson. "These plants grow in really harsh areas where soil quality is very poor -- often pure gravel or sand.

The inspirational flora is the pitcher plant, which is shaped like - well, like a water pitcher, or perhaps a wide-end-up trumpet. When insects step onto its slippery inner surface, ...

Pitcher plants sprout blooms, but the trap nectar doesn’t come from the drooping flowers. A roll of tissue near the pitcher mouth oozes the treat. That nectar-heavy roll curves onto what’s ...

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 ...