Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that ...

Simply speaking, a carnivorous plant is one that eats insects as part of its regular diet. All plants take in carbon dioxide and use sunlight to convert it to food to help them grow (that’s ...

Eating animals, in other words, lets carnivorous plants do what all plants do: grow by grabbing energy directly from the sun. Alas, they do a lousy job of it. Carnivorous plants turn out to be ...

Here, we’ll introduce you to five of the most amazing carnivorous plants and explain how they trap and consume their prey. Get ready to be amazed!

While most of our carnivorous plants live behind the scenes in Kew's Tropical Nursery, you can still discover the magic of flesh-eating plants dotted around the Gardens. You’ll find some of these ...

Venus flytraps are fascinating carniverous plants native to the Carolinas. These fast moving plants are excellent at catching ...

(Darwin called it “carnivorous syndrome.”) But while the appetites of most flesh-eating plants, such as Venus flytraps, lean mainly toward small insects, tropical pitcher plants have much more ...