A breed of insect-snaffling plant is being reintroduced to boglands in northwest England after more than 150 years. Several carnivorous Great Sundew, known for its ruby red tentacles dripping with ...

The Cape sundew is a carnivorous plant found in South Africa. The plant’s leaves are covered in tiny red tentacles called glandular trichomes. The tentacles produce drops of sticky mucilage, a ...

1. Sundews are a carnivorous plant, and despite their tiny size they are a formidable foe for insects on every continent except Antarctica! There at least 194 species of sundew, or Drosera, and they ...

Plants are usually seen as calm, life-giving organisms that rely on sunlight, water and soil to grow. They form the base of most ecosystems and are often associated with nourishment and greenery.

World Bog Day was celebrated around the world on July 23. I celebrated by hiking to an Alaskan bog, or muskeg, as they are colloquially known. This particular bog surrounded a small lake that was ...

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 ...

Here, the carnivorous sundew plant growing on the foothills of Mt. Cameron, in northeastern Tasmania. Researchers have found the plant's snappy tentacles can capture an insect in just 75 milliseconds.

A fly traversing the leaves of a sundew must feel like those wooly mammoths that stumbled around in tar pits trapped and sinking ever deeper to their deaths. On a recent canoe trip in Ontario, in a ...

Nobody likes a mooch. If you've ever had a friend who makes a habit or rummaging around in your fridge the moment they walk into your place you know exactly what I'm talking about, but apparently the ...

Carnivorous plants are some of the most interesting lifeforms in the world. While most plants rely solely on sunlight and water to survive, carnivorous plants additionally digest insects for added ...