Aquatic carnivorous plants, typified by genera such as Utricularia and Aldrovanda, represent some of nature’s most specialised adaptations for life in nutrient-poor aquatic environments. These plants ...
Fleas are only a few millimeters in size. But they do have a whole arsenal of defenses -- even against aggressive plants. Water fleas are masters of adaptation. Researchers from Ruhr-Universität ...
The best time to see this plant is in the morning, just as the sun is coming up, while you quietly paddle in the backwater end of a pond, or perhaps inside a mysterious Carolina bay. By the hundreds, ...
What Is a Carnivorous Plant? Simply speaking, a carnivorous plant is one that eats insects as part of its regular diet. All ...
The other day I was busying around in the herbarium when a gentleman from the little town of Wagener, South Carolina, dropped by, carrying a bucket. Inside the bucket was a good bit of water, from his ...
For small aquatic critters like mosquito larvae and water fleas, a plant called the bladderwort is a nightmare. Like the Venus flytrap, it’s carnivorous; it eats bugs. On the water’s surface, ...
Botanists have discovered a new carnivorous plant in western North America. Triantha occidentalis makes its home in wetlands and bogs from Alaska to California and inland to Montana. In the summer, it ...
THIS VENUS FLYTRAP HAS CAUGHT SOME PREY. I’M HERE AT VALLEY VIEW FARMS FOR SUNDAY GARDENER. I’M HERE WITH CARRIE INGLE. AND YOU KNOW, WHEN PEOPLE THINK OF CARNIVOROUS PLANTS, THEY THINK OF VENUS ...
Looking for ways to get rid of insects bugging you at home? Carnivorous plants could be an environmentally friendly way to help manage your insect problem. Most of these plants in nature live in ...
They call themselves Skippy, a strangely cheerful name for a group devoted to a fairly creepy endeavor (at least from this animal’s perspective) — the care and breeding of carnivorous plants. Yes, ...
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