Venus flytraps are carnivorous plants, so in addition to the right watering schedule, you should supplement their nutrition ...

What has no brain, no nervous system, and not even nerves, yet acts as if it has reflexes? The answer is a Venus fly trap.

As previously reported, the Venus flytrap attracts its prey with a pleasing fruity scent. When an insect lands on a leaf, it ...

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 ...

Imagine a houseplant that can feel you brushing against it — and then decides whether or not to eat you. That’s essentially ...

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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 ...

Carnivorous plants stir the imagination. You can find the results in science fiction novels ("The Day of the Triffids"), Broadway plays ("Little Shop of Horrors") and in recent research that concludes ...

The root of this prey-catching technique is a chemical ion channel named DmMSL10 that surrounds the base of a Venus fly trap’s sensory hairs. This membrane allows chemicals to pass through and is the ...

Watch a carnivorous Venus flytrap growing and eating before your eyes in this time-lapse. A dormant flytrap was planted into ...

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 ...

Three people were arrested this week for poaching wild-grown Venus flytrap. Jan. 26, 2012 — -- Venus' flytraps may have a fearsome reputation as far as plants go, but in the Carolinas, the ...