It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants ...

Julian Shepersky created his first genetically unique carnivorous plant as a sophomore at Albany High School. Now he has several hundred plants, which he has to leave behind when he goes to college.

Carnivorous plants are some of the most fascinating species in nature. Plants like Venus flytraps, pitcher plants, sundews, and others get their nutrients by catching flying insects with sticky ...

The underground pitchers of Nepenthes pudica Courtesy of Martin Dančák. Now, that fateful discovery has led to the identification of a new species of pitcher plant, one that traps and eats bugs ...

Found only near the summit of Mount Victoria on the island of Palawan in the Philippines, Attenborough’s pitcher plant, Nepenthes attenboroughii, is critically endangered. One of the largest of all ...

This variety of pitcher plant thrives at high altitudes in southeast Asia. While most of its close relatives climb trees with their grapelike vines, Leibovitch says Veitch’s follows a pattern ...

Sarracenia pitcher plants, found in eastern North America, look like trumpet-shaped flowers. But the “flowers” are modified leaves that form a cup containing digestive enzymes and entrap insects.

“Plant carnivory is something of a hunt for fertilizer,” Albert says. In a 1992 study, Albert and colleagues discovered that the Asian, Australian and American pitcher plants possess similar features ...

Deep in the Bornean rainforest, a small woolly bat curls up for a nap inside of a carnivorous plant, designed by nature to devour insects that dare cross its path. So why isn't the bat on the menu?

“This carnivorous plant attracts insect prey with a combination of scent, gravity and a waxy, slippery substance, forcing prey to fall into the pitcher,” the state wrote.

“This carnivorous plant attracts insect prey with a combination of scent, gravity and a waxy, slippery substance, forcing prey to fall into the pitcher,” the state wrote.

“This carnivorous plant attracts insect prey with a combination of scent, gravity and a waxy, slippery substance, forcing prey to fall into the pitcher,” the state wrote.