Insects have plenty to beware when it comes to carnivorous plants. Add an acid-loving fungus to that list of dangers. Sundew plants have tentacle-like leaves that curl around and entrap flies and ...

The twitchy tentacles of a sundew can catapult prey into the carnivorous plant's sticky traps in a fraction of a second, researchers say. These fast-moving snares are among the quickest seen yet in ...

Finding a sundew plant with a healthy supply of insect food may not seem suspicious. After all, carnivorous plants are famed for supplementing their diet with meat to compensate for nutrient-poor soil ...

The roundleaf sundew looks like something out of an alien movie, a tiny plant with tentacle-like stems extending in a rose pattern and red hairs sticking out from the leaves. It’s not a typical ...

I’d been bent at the hip like a cartoon detective, snooping around the trail’s edges, for over an hour. Covered in streaks of my own blood, courtesy of the recently satiated mosquitoes I swatted off ...

At first glance, all seemed well in the sundew’s larder. Sticky tentacles lining this carnivorous plant’s leaves had done their job most effectively, trapping small insects and condemning them to a ...

Discover how cape sundew plants growing and eating insects in this epic time-lapse. Sundew seeds were planted in a pot with peat moss and perlite in a ratio 1:1. We placed the pot in a terrarium and ...

Tucked into bogs, you’ll find one of Minnesota’s most unusual — and carnivorous — plants, which is easiest to spot this time of year when reddish-purple flowers tower above their unusual leaves.

A rare insect-eating plant with long tentacles and tiny leaves tipped with red-colored glands that ooze alluring nectar has been found just outside Michigan, in a county where it hadn't been seen for ...