Flies and tiny gnats can also be a nuisance outdoors — hovering over plants and landing on food during a barbecue. Get rid of flies by placing a homemade trap where they tend to congregate: near a ...

The Venus fly trap encloses a pair of its lobes around its prey when an insect triggers sensitive hairs inside the plant. Pitcher plants use a different strategy. They have a tall, slender shape ...

There are already five different plants including yellow jasmine ... But supporters said honoring the Venus fly trap isn’t about one extra thing students see on an elementary school worksheet.

"Despite how different Venus fly traps are from humans ... molecules that form the Flycatcher1 protein channel in Venus fly trap plants. They found that Flycatcher1 is, in many ways, similar ...

But these voracious plants are very real—and scientists are trying to work out how they draw prey into their death traps ... from bees and moths to ants and flies. But botanists have never ...

The Venus fly trap (Dionaea muscipula) captivates with its clever approach to survival, thriving in the coastal wetlands of North and South Carolina. This remarkable plant is not only known for ...

Different kinds of Sarracenia pitcher plants tend to eat different kinds of insects — some species trap more ants ... might attract pollinators that fly from bud to bud, whereas ants, which ...

Some carnivorous plants change their scent to attract different types of prey ... these plants manage to lure insects into their leafy trap in the first place: the colour of their green funnels ...