When my Florida plant-geek industry friends learned that I was moving to Wilmington, N.C., they knew of the place not as home of the Azalea Festival, or the new residence of my kids/grandkids, but ...

If you accidentally get transformed into a fly, and get caught in a Venus flytrap, here is some valuable advice: Don’t panic. “If you just sit there and wait, the next morning, the trap will open and ...

"Look at this!" said my dad, as he inserted the blunt end of his eyeglasses into my Venus fly trap. The plant closed its fibrous mouth over the plastic ear pad, locking it in. "Papa, you're killing it ...

In this video, I tested a Venus flytrap against a black widow spider to see which would win. Additionally, I experimented with Venus flytraps against flies and crickets. #venusflytrap #blackwidow ...

Scientists have determined how Venus fly trap plants (Dionaea muscipula) carry out their characteristic snapping mechanism, where they ‘snap shut’ when an insect or an arachnid enters. The snapping ...

Carnivorous plants are inherently kind of creepy. But a new study published Thursday in Cell Biology really cranks that creepiness up to 11. According to this new research, the Venus flytrap can. . .

The Venus flytrap captures insects for more than just nutritional purposes. A research team has demonstrated that the carnivorous plant extracts also energy from its prey. The Venus flytrap captures ...

Scientists have revealed the three-dimensional structure of Flycatcher1, an aptly named protein channel that may enable Venus fly trap plants to snap shut in response to prey. The structure of ...