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.

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 ...

The jerking motion whiplashes bugs into the trap. The plant’s geometry constrains lid movement on the upswing so that it doesn’t lift far beyond its resting position.

Tropical pitcher plants from the genus Nepenthes are carnivorous plants with large, fluid-filled tubes that they use to trap a wide array of prey, including insects such as ants, and arachnids ...

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 ...

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 ...

A pioneering pitcher plant is changing what we know about carnivorous species.. With a name meaning 'shy', the pitcher plant Nepenthes pudica hides its traps under moss or soil to capture a range of ...

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.