Fly Trap Trail in Carolina Beach State Park is home to a lot of bugs and plants. But the big draw for neighbors and visitors ...

A man ordered a "Venus flytrap" from an overseas seller, only to receive a plant that looked nothing like the carnivorous ...

This one-of-a-kind predatory strategy has never been seen in other insects. Scientists think it was used to trap flies into ...

CONWAY — Venus flytraps don’t usually trap flies at all, Jim Luken, a botanist and retired biology professor, said. Flying insects are attracted to the plants’ flowers, which sit high above ...

An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, scientists reported Wednesday. The parasitic wasp's abdomen boasts a set of ...

Damon Waitt looking at Venus flytraps at the NC Botanical Garden (Chloe Rafferty/CBS 17) Damon Waitt, the director of the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill, is celebrating a big ...

After years of uncertainty and diplomacy, state lawmakers have approved a special license plate to honor the Venus flytrap, the state’s native carnivorous plant. A provision creating the plate ...

Specimens of Sirenobethylus charybdis, or S. charybdis, named after the Greek mythological sea monster Charybdis, would use their Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture and immobilize their prey ...