In this video, a Venus flytrap is tested against a black widow spider to determine the outcome of their encounter. The video ...
As previously reported, the Venus flytrap attracts its prey with a pleasing fruity scent. When an insect lands on a leaf, it ...
Watch a carnivorous Venus flytrap growing and eating before your eyes in this time-lapse. A dormant flytrap was planted into ...
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.
Venus flytraps are carnivorous plants, so in addition to the right watering schedule, you should supplement their nutrition ...
Plants lack nerves, yet they can sensitively detect touch from other organisms. In the Venus flytrap, highly sensitive sensory hairs act as tactile sensing organs; when touched twice in quick ...
In the United States, Venus fly traps are only native to North and South Carolina. The root of this prey-catching technique is a chemical ion channel named DmMSL10 that surrounds the base of a Venus ...
A new kind of shape-shifting material can twist, bend, and snap into more than a dozen three-dimensional forms—no motors or ...
A two-time Emmy-winning filmmaker is turning his lens on one of North Carolina’s most famous native plants, the Venus Flytrap, to highlight its precarious existence in the wild.
A Japanese research team has unraveled the Venus flytrap's detailed mechanism to detect insects using its touch sensor. While humans have known for about 200 years that the carnivorous plant detects ...
The Venus flytrap possesses sensory hairs that detect prey via touch stimuli. Bending of the sensory hair trigger Ca 2+ and electrical signals that propagate to the leaf blade. Saitama, Japan: Plants ...
The secret of the Venus flytrap's deadly bite has finally been revealed. The unique touch sensor of the carnivorous plant that feeds on insects has been identified by Japanese scientists. Plants lack ...