When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Unlike most plants, Venus flytraps are carnivorous, which means they eat meat. Charles Darwin ...

What Is a Carnivorous Plant? Simply speaking, a carnivorous plant is one that eats insects as part of its regular diet. All plants take in carbon dioxide and use sunlight to convert it to food to help ...

Got bugs? Then you might want to get a Venus flytrap, a fascinating carnivorous (!) plant you can grow alongside all your other houseplants. This interesting little plant, native only to the bogs of ...

Venus flytraps are carnivorous plants, and feed on live insects such as flies and spiders. While Venus flytraps can be grown indoors, they thrive outdoors in temperate climates. Venus flytraps prefer ...

The Venus flytrap is one of the world’s most iconic plants, partially in thanks to the 1986 cult classic Little Shop of Horrors. But while we all know Venus flytraps don’t eat people, few people know ...

Director of the NC Cooperative Extension – New Hanover County center at the Arboretum When my Florida plant-geek industry friends learned that I was moving to Wilmington, N.C., they knew of the place ...

An insect lands on the open leaves of a Venus flytrap plant, drawn to an appealing scent. It noses around and accidentally brushes one of the trap’s trigger hairs. An action potential shoots across ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Linnea Covington, Special to The Denver Post Many people have a gleeful fascination with carnivorous plants, be that a Venus flytrap, pitcher plant, ...

Many flowering plants are in happy, mutually beneficial relationships with animals that suck up sweet nectar from their blooms and, in exchange, carry their pollen to far-off plants, allowing them to ...

The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) feeds on insects. It attracts a meal with its flower-like reddish color and ripe fruity smell on leaves converted to ambush traps. Seeking nectar, an insect will ...