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A study suggests that pitcher plants tailor the smells they produce to woo particular kinds of insects. By Veronique Greenwood Pitcher plants supplement their diets with this one strange trick: eating ...

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Sarracenia pitcher plants, found in bogs throughout eastern North America, look like trumpet-shaped flowers, often in purplish or reddish hues. But looks can be deceiving. The striking "flowers" are ...

Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that the plants can't absorb from the soil. Not only does this alien-looking ...

On the soggy floor of one of the only remaining intact forests on the island nation of Singapore, the egg-sized heads of carnivorous creatures emerge from decaying leaves. They appear to be belching, ...

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 ...

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