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 helpless ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A new kind of greenery is taking root in the Triad, and it bites! Carnivorous Plants by Kenny Coogan, Winston-Salem’s largest carnivorous plant nursery, will make its debut at ...

The Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula is the most sophisticated of the carnivorous plants. Its traps snap shut in a fraction of a second, imprisoning prey in a cage of teeth that line the edges of the ...

Peggy Singlemann visits Dr. Phil Sheridan at Meadowview Biological Research Station in Woodford to learn about pitcher plants and explore a rare gravel bog ecosystem where these unique native plants ...

PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON / The sumptuous wine-red leaves of the Northern pitcher plant are extremely attractive and potentially deadly to insects. Note the downward-pointing “hairs” on the lid of the ...

Carnivorous plants feed on insects and use a variety of sneaky and sometimes gruesome ways to lure, trap and devour their prey. Question: I was recently gifted a Venus fly trap plant and would like to ...

The Mid-Atlantic Carnivorous Plant Society (MACPS) will present its first-ever Plant Show on Saturday, Oct. 11, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Haverford College. Tickets are $5 and on sale now. The one-day ...