El Adelantado de Segovia

Carnivorous plants reinvent plant nutrition and, with traps such as Dionaea and Nepenthes, show highly precise convergent evolution

It is easy to feel sorry for the small bugs that end up as lunch for hunters like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps, and ...
WRAL

Venus flytrap harvester Richard Jones thrives in face of plant's struggles

Richard Jones saw his first Venus Flytrap when an old man -- well, maybe just old to 7- or 8-year-old Jones -- was selling them in paper cups out of his tailgate in Holden Beach, N.C. Richard Jones ...
Gizmodo

This Is How a Venus Flytrap Knows It’s Time to Snap Shut

As far as plants go, Venus flytraps are pretty hardcore. After attracting its prey with a fruity scent and trapping it inside its leaves, the flytrap slowly digests the insect for 5 to 12 days, ...
Post and Courier

There are only 3 stable Venus Flytrap populations on Earth. How do we protect the one in SC?

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 the iconic ...