Are you looking for ways to get rid of gnats and other winged pests from your home or yard? What if we told you that you ...

Carnivorous plants have developed a terrific array of weird and wonderful adaptations that help them flourish in nutrient-poor environments. Enter the world of predatory plants (if you dare) and ...

Jerry looks at the curious and slightly gruesome pitcher plants, which boost their nutrient intake by trapping and digesting insects. He says they are relatively easy to grow but have a few quirks ...

It is also home to a number of other species of carnivorous plants, less famous and more widespread but no less bizarre. You can find pitcher plants with leaves like champagne flutes, into which ...

Carnivorous plants are some of the most fascinating species in nature. Plants like Venus flytraps, pitcher plants, sundews, and others get their nutrients by catching flying insects with sticky ...

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 ...

The pitcher plant Nepenthes x ventrata is gorgeous and popular with horticulturists, but it’s deadly for the insects that fall into the trap for which it is named. Yet the enzymes in the digestive ...