The idea of “man-eating plants” has long captured our macabre imaginations. Pitcher plants, however, require a much smaller meal. They capture insects using their highly specialized pitcher-shaped ...

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.

Carnivorous Plants May Lure Insects With Specially Tailored Scents Pitcher plants appear to use different odor cocktails to attract bees, moths, ants and other bugs into their death traps ...

Life Pitcher plants use raindrop impacts to fling insects into their trap. Raindrops trigger a predatory diving board that cannonballs insects into a pool of digestive fluids ...

A newly discovered pitcher plant keeps its hunger for insects on the down low: It’s the first such plant known to grow working traps underground.. Martin Dančák, a plant taxonomist, and Wewin ...

It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants feed upon. What seems to be an inert plant, a part of the ecological ...

Its bulbous, crimson-toned pitcher can hold about 3 liters (0.79 gallons) of water and 2.5 liters (0.66 gallons) of digestive juices, in which it traps any prey that happens to fall in, including ...

Carnivorous plants feed on insects and use a variety of sneaky and sometimes gruesome ways to lure, trap and devour their prey. Question: I was recently gifted a Venus fly trap plant and would ...

Genomic study sheds light on how carnivorous Asian pitcher plants acquired signature insect trap. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 11 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Possessing more than two complete sets of chromosomes can be a hindrance to long-term survival of a plant lineage, yet scientists are also finding evidence it’s likely behind some ...