Bladderworts are a species of carnivorous plant that use their traps to capture and eat animals A West Australian scientist hopes to be the first to use a technique called "DNA metabarcoding" to ...

What is a Venus fly trap? The Venus fly trap is a carnivorous plant that is native to North and South Carolina. The plant gets its name from its ability to trap and eat flies and other small insects.

(Ed Reschke / Peter Arnold) Two castes of paper wasps are genetically identical. Larvae turn into either workers or potential queens, depending on the behavior of adults, say University of Wisconsin ...

Common bladderwort was one of Charles Darwin's favorite plants. This aquatic, carnivorous plant is blooming in ponds and bogs right now, and is one of the most interesting plants you are likely to ...

While most people are familiar with leafy insect-eating plants such as the Venus flytrap or pitcher plant, many may not realise Tasmania is home to its own unique carnivorous plants. Darren Cullen's ...

An unfamiliar sound caught my attention. The day wasn’t cloudy but the smoke and ash and dust from fires far to the west obscured the blueness and rendered the sky a uniformly pale gray. I found the ...

In the musical "Little Shop of Horrors," a mysterious Venus flytrap in a florist shop reveals its appetite for human flesh and blood. Fortunately, there's no real-life equivalent of Audrey, the ...

I continue my columns on the carnivorous plants of Indiana with the bladderwort family. In past columns, I featured the Venus flytrap, sundew and pitcher plant. Two of these are native plants in ...

A carnivorous plant that lives in bogs worldwide traps its prey in less than a millisecond, more than 100 times faster than a Venus flytrap can manage, a new study finds. The study is the first to ...

New findings have been gained on the biomechanics and evolution of suction traps in carnivorous bladderworts. Bladderworts (Utricularia spp. Lentibulariaceae) are plants with many superlatives: They ...