Learn how to take care of—and feed—carnivorous plants. Learn facts about Venus flytraps, pitcher plants and more.

Discover how carnivorous plants catch tiny insects using clever natural traps. Explore the surprising world of carnivorous ...

Most plants get on just fine with sunshine, water, and half-decent soil. Carnivorous plants don’t have that option. In my own ...

Acid-filled pitchers complete with fangs. Labyrinthine chambers decorated with bristles. Leaves that snap shut in less than a second. Employing strategies like these, carnivorous plants have a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Carnivorous plants look like botanical oddities, but their ...

Sticky “hairs” on two plant species in the Saxifraga genus led famed British naturalist Charles Darwin to wonder: Could some plants in this genus be carnivorous? He couldn’t prove it then, but more ...

Flora/Fauna, a plant store in Atlanta, has seen a sharp increase in demand in the last year. “We’ve always carried them, but ...

At a very young age, Kevin Zhang learned that gardening was not for the faint of heart. Some of his earliest memories are of his grandmother plucking fat green caterpillars from the tomato plants in ...

From Kaas to Panchgani, Maharashtra’s lateritic plateaus host tiny carnivorous plants such as Davbindu and Seetechi Aasave.

In Florida’s wetlands, the carnivorous pitcher plant is blurring the lines between predator and ally. Home to entire unique ecosystems, there are more to these ancient organisms than many realize. So ...

Peggy Singlemann visits Dr. Phil Sheridan at Meadowview Biological Research Station in Woodford to learn about pitcher plants and explore a rare gravel bog ecosystem where these unique native plants ...

Most plants get on just fine with sunshine, water, and half-decent soil. Carnivorous plants don’t have that option. In my own vegetable beds I spend half my time trying to build richer soil, so it ...