Obviously, the sundew plants don’t reach out and grab the insects, and as always they rely solely on bugs being dumb enough to land in its sticky stalks, but it’s a clear benefit for them to ...

Travel & Outdoors You Can Find the Carnivorous Plant Charles Darwin Was Obsessed With in a Texas Park The pink and dwarf sundews, found in Big Thicket, have captivated naturalists for centuries ...

Carnivorous plants are special plants that eat insects to survive in poor soil. They use clever traps like sticky leaves, ...

Finding a sundew plant with a healthy supply of insect food may not seem suspicious. After all, carnivorous plants are famed for supplementing their diet with meat to compensate for nutrient-poor ...

These included T. occidentalis, a carnivorous sundew, and a non-carnivorous plant from the daisy family known as wandering fleabane.

Sundews, pitcher plants, flytraps and other critter-trapping plants have done extremely well for themselves, through millions of years, ensnaring small prey and developing relationships with ...

The harsh habitat of the round-leaved sundew isn’t a problem for the plant, as its carnivorous diet helps it get the nutrients it needs. Covered in “sticky glands,” the plant traps insects ...

Although the Venus flytrap is the plant most people think of when they hear “carnivorous,” there are also numerous species of pitcher plants, sundews, and bladderworts that eat meat.

When he checked the plants’ nitrogen levels, the sundew and Triantha occidentalis had absorbed the isotope, confirming that the plant was indeed ingesting prey. The researchers say their findings hint ...

The twitchy tentacles of a sundew can catapult prey into the carnivorous plant's sticky traps in a fraction of a second, researchers say.

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 ...

Still, Austin said, unlike Venus' flytraps, sundews and other delicate and unpredictable carnivorous species, pitcher plants are not hard to grow if their needs are met.