As previously reported, the Venus flytrap attracts its prey with a pleasing fruity scent. When an insect lands on a leaf, it ...

Carnivorous plants are a fascinating part of the natural world, especially species like the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) that rely on what is effectively a spring-loaded trap to ensnare ...

Venus flytraps are carnivorous plants, so in addition to the right watering schedule, you should supplement their nutrition ...

Watch a carnivorous Venus flytrap growing and eating before your eyes in this time-lapse. A dormant flytrap was planted into ...

At a very young age, Kevin Zhang learned that gardening was not for the faint of heart. Some of his earliest memories are of ...

The Venus flytrap possesses sensory hairs that detect prey via touch stimuli. Bending of the sensory hair trigger Ca 2+ and electrical signals that propagate to the leaf blade. Saitama, Japan: Plants ...

Bringing plants into your home does more than just brighten up a room. It connects you with nature, purifies your air, and ...

A two-time Emmy-winning filmmaker is turning his lens on one of North Carolina’s most famous native plants, the Venus Flytrap, to highlight its precarious existence in the wild.

With around only 20 sustainable populations of Venus flytraps left in the world, the well-known carnivorous plant could be at the brink of extinction within the next century. Two University of ...

Bill Matthews, a biomedical illustrator and animator, will give a presentation on rare, exotic, hungry, and carnivorous ...

A new kind of shape-shifting material can twist, bend, and snap into more than a dozen three-dimensional forms—no motors or ...

The Venus flytrap possesses sensory hairs that detect prey via touch stimuli. Bending of the sensory hair trigger Ca 2+ and electrical signals that propagate to the leaf blade. Video 1: ...