Visitors walk through a carnivorous plant exhibit at the Botanical Garden in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) ...

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 ...

Beware of any delicate white wildflowers you see growing in a bog. They may look innocent, but they just might be meat-eaters. The small flowering plant called Triantha occidentalis—a species of false ...

Carnivorous plants have fed our imaginations since the dawn of our time. Charles Darwin called the most popular variety, the Venus flytrap, the “most wonderful plant on earth.” Even the film The ...

I’d been bent at the hip like a cartoon detective, snooping around the trail’s edges, for over an hour. Covered in streaks of my own blood, courtesy of the recently satiated mosquitoes I swatted off ...

Scientists have discovered a carnivorous plant that grows prey-trapping contraptions underground, feeding off subterranean creatures such as worms, larvae and beetles.The newly found species of ...

In “we can’t believe this needs to be said” news, the Cambodian government asks that people not pick phallic flowers just so they can take photos with them. The Ministry of Environment posted the ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — With bright colors, deceptive shapes and sweet aromas, carnivorous plants lure insects only to trap and devour them. Nothing about them is accidental. Their beauty is the ...