Looking to introduce more unique plants into your collection? The Venus fly trap is a great option, although you might want to learn how to care for it before you take the leap. Venus fly traps ...

An insect lands on the open leaves of a Venus flytrap plant, drawn to an appealing scent. It noses around and accidentally brushes one of the trap’s trigger hairs. An action potential shoots across ...

plants generally don't come to mind. After all, they're typically at the bottom of the food chain. But the Carolinas are home to one vicious vegetable: The Venus flytrap. Using its famous trap ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. The paper S. Scherzer et al., “Venus flytrap trigger hairs are micronewton mechano-sensors that can detect small insect prey,” Nat Plants, 5:670–75, 2019. The ...

Venus flytraps: This classic carnivorous plant snaps its jaws shut around unsuspecting insects.They don't require as much humidity as other carnivorous plants, so they're better suited to open ...

Researchers are able to track Venus flytrap plants that were stolen from protected areas Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content Licensing Our Partners Terms of Use ...

For Venus flytraps to actually eat insects, he declared, would go "against the order of nature as willed by God." The plants only catch insects by accident, he reasoned, and once a hapless bug ...

Buffalo-based multimedia artist Amanda Besl's "Temple of Hortus" opens March 27 in the Center for the Arts gallery.

Looks like everything’s just fine over here! Ah, the Venus flytrap… a flesh-eating plant that senses touch through little hair-like spikes on these unusual leaves. If an insect is foolish ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for failing to decide whether 241 plants and animals across the country — from the Midwest’s golden-winged warbler ...

The magnetic chomp of a Venus flytrap—and more science dispatches The magnetic chomp of a Venus flytrap—and more science dispatches Read Venus Flytraps Have Surprising Pollinators ...