The trap of an insect-eating Nepenthes pitcher plant, swarming with nectar-collecting ants. Research from the University of Bristol, UK, has found that, by 'switching off' its traps for part of ...

it has long been a mystery why mature plants have seemingly ineffective and dry traps up to eight hours a day. To examine the apparent disadvantage of this adaptation, which is nevertheless common ...

Carnivorous plants are interesting members of the plant world that have evolved to trap and digest animals, mostly insects, to survive. These plants thrive in places where the soil is poor in ...

This story appears in the March 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. A hungry fly darts through the pines in North Carolina. Drawn by what seems like the scent of nectar from a flowerlike ...

From carnivorous sundews and Venus flytraps trapping insects to pitcher plants luring prey with deceptive ... track light, and even trap prey. Through evolution and adaptation, they have developed ...

They are often very muddy. Venus fly traps have leaves that close, surround and catch insects. Pitcher plants have cylindrical leaves with fluid at the bottom to trap insects that fall in.