Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. N. macrophylla with animal droppings in its tube-shaped trap. Here we see the pitcher plant Nepenthes macrophylla with animal ...

Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that the plants can't absorb from the soil. Not only does this alien-looking ...

Pitcher-plants of the genus Nepenthes are tropical carnivorous plants that trap and digest insects. Some of Borneo’s pitcher plants inhabit a broad altitudinal range in its mountainous forests, while ...

Not having luck growing carnivorous plants at home? Jacob Soule talks carnivorous plant soil requirements, pitcher plant varieties, sundew plant care, and more. In this episode of Mother Earth News ...

An international team of researchers led by Dr. Ulrike Bauer from the University of Bristol investigated two tropical pitcher plant species separated by 4,000 km of open ocean: The Slender Pitcher ...

Fuzzy sundews that trap bugs in their sticky tendrils, Venus flytraps that snap shut on insects and fingers and tropical pitcher plants that catch flies in their protuberances — all of these and more ...

This story was originally published in winter 2019. Inside a greenhouse at Millersville University, it’s tough for Ian Fitzhugh to pick out one plant. When pressed, he points to a tropical pitcher ...

Anna: They snap, they trap, they stick, and they suck. This is the bizarre world of carnivorous plants—leafy creatures that eat everything from insects, to crustaceans, to mammals. I’m Anna, and this ...