The poor soil of bogs, for example, offers little nitrogen and phosphorus, so carnivorous plants enjoy an advantage there over plants that obtain these nutrients by more conventional means.

Smaller carnivorous plants specialise in single-celled organisms (such as bacteria and protozoa) and aquatic examples also eat crustaceans, mosquito larvae and small fish. Carnivory is such an ...

While the carnivorous cravings of most flesh-eating plants are limited to small insects, one exception is the pitcher plant. It can consume anything that fits in its mouthincluding a mouse!

The bladderwort grows aquatically, and consists of rootless leafy stems below the waterline, with yellow flowers resembling ...

Hundreds of carnivorous plants were displayed this weekend at Bogotá’s botanical garden in an exhibit that invited visitors ...

“We mostly think about plant signaling as targeting sight and smell, but here these plants are not so much giving a ‘shout out’ but a ‘shout back’ to the bats to come on over,” Rohan Clarke, an ...

However, consumption of a seed kills the plant before it can grow, making seed consumption an example of predation. Not all predators are animals. Carnivorous plants, such as the Venus fly trap ...

Visitors walk through a carnivorous plant exhibit at the Botanical Garden in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) ...