What is a Venus fly trap? The Venus fly trap is a carnivorous plant that is native to North and South Carolina. The plant gets its name from its ability to trap and eat flies and other small insects.

(Ed Reschke / Peter Arnold) Two castes of paper wasps are genetically identical. Larvae turn into either workers or potential queens, depending on the behavior of adults, say University of Wisconsin ...

Carnivorous plants catch and digest tiny animals in order and derive benefits for their nutrition. Interestingly the trend towards vegetarianism seems to overcome carnivorous plants as well. The ...

An unfamiliar sound caught my attention. The day wasn’t cloudy but the smoke and ash and dust from fires far to the west obscured the blueness and rendered the sky a uniformly pale gray. I found the ...

In the musical "Little Shop of Horrors," a mysterious Venus flytrap in a florist shop reveals its appetite for human flesh and blood. Fortunately, there's no real-life equivalent of Audrey, the ...

Common bladderwort was one of Charles Darwin's favorite plants. This aquatic, carnivorous plant is blooming in ponds and bogs right now, and is one of the most interesting plants you are likely to ...

New findings have been gained on the biomechanics and evolution of suction traps in carnivorous bladderworts. Bladderworts (Utricularia spp. Lentibulariaceae) are plants with many superlatives: They ...

A carnivorous plant that lives in bogs worldwide traps its prey in less than a millisecond, more than 100 times faster than a Venus flytrap can manage, a new study finds. The study is the first to ...

I continue my columns on the carnivorous plants of Indiana with the bladderwort family. In past columns, I featured the Venus flytrap, sundew and pitcher plant. Two of these are native plants in ...

I am fascinated by carnivorous plants, and I cultivate a large collection of them, including several species that live in water. These aquatic carnivorous plants, known as bladderworts, reside in one ...