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 ...

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 first carnivorous plant in twenty years has been discovered by researchers—and as it turns out, its unique abilities have been hiding in plain sight all along. According to a study published ...

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.

Tassin pointed out less showy Purple Pitcher plants among the white tops, and Parrot pitchers, so named because their inviting flytraps, clustered in low clumps, are curved like the beaks of parrots.

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 ...

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 ...