The carnivorous Venus flytrap plant can snap its clamshell leaves around an insect in less than a second. But how? Unlike animals, plants have no muscles or brains. And plants are not known for their ...

Venus’ flytraps can be bought legally at a variety of stores. Fly Trap Farm, a well-known wholesaler in Brunswick County, sells flytraps to small garden centers, greenhouses and botanical gardens in ...

Most of us were probably a bit incredulous the first time we heard about the Venus flytrap: There’s such a thing as a carnivorous plant? One that actually can clench its jaw-like protuberance around ...

What Is a Carnivorous Plant? Simply speaking, a carnivorous plant is one that eats insects as part of its regular diet. All plants take in carbon dioxide and use sunlight to convert it to food to help ...

Richard Jones saw his first Venus Flytrap when an old man -- well, maybe just old to 7- or 8-year-old Jones -- was selling them in paper cups out of his tailgate in Holden Beach, N.C. Richard Jones ...

Of all the wild places across the globe, a 100-mile radius around Wilmington extending to Fayetteville is the only natural home to the Venus flytrap. This remarkable, carnivorous plant snaps its ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KTVX) – The Venus flytrap can stoke your curiosity or haunt your dreams, but either way, you generally can’t help staring when one of the carnivorous plants chomps down on a bug. The ...

San Diego researchers have isolated the biological mechanism that allows Venus flytraps to catch their living animal prey. The information may have applications for humans. Researchers at the Salk ...

It’s not uncommon for robot-building engineers to take inspiration from one of Mother Nature’s designs, but this might be the first time we’ve seen one of her creations, a Venus flytrap plant, used to ...

BOILING SPRING LAKES, N.C. (AP) — Authorities in North Carolina have obtained arrest warrants for two people in a poaching case involving hundreds of Venus flytraps, which grow naturally in the ...

An extinct species of parasitic wasp dating back nearly 99 million years was found preserved in amber, according to researchers. Specimens of Sirenobethylus charybdis, or S. charybdis, named after the ...

NEW YORK — An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, scientists reported Wednesday. The parasitic wasp’s abdomen boasts a set ...