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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

They say you can catch more flies ... plant? Because researchers have engineered a bio-inspired system…an artificial neuron, if you will…that can trigger the snap of a Venus fly trap.