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Carnivorous plants reinvent plant nutrition and, with traps such as Dionaea and Nepenthes, show highly precise convergent evolution

It is easy to feel sorry for the small bugs that end up as lunch for hunters like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps, and ...
New Atlas

Newly classified carnivorous plant goes underground to catch prey

Carnivorous plants are already quite fascinating, but a newly discovered one ratchets up the weirdness factor even further. It's a type of pitcher plant, and it captures prey that lives underground.
The New York Times

Carnivorous Plants Use a Smelly Trick to Catch Their Prey

A study suggests that pitcher plants tailor the smells they produce to woo particular kinds of insects. By Veronique Greenwood Pitcher plants supplement their diets with this one strange trick: eating ...
New Scientist

Pitcher plants use raindrop impacts to fling insects into their trap

The slender pitcher plant of South-East Asia has a leafy lid that acts like a springboard, launching prey into a deep cavity filled with digestive juices. Now, scientists have figured out how this ...
The New York Times

It Hides Under the Soil With a Bottomless Appetite for Meat

Among the numerous carnivorous pitcher plant species, scientists say this is the first that lays its traps underground. By Carolyn Wilke A newly discovered pitcher plant keeps its hunger for insects ...
KVIA

Plants that devour insects could be luring prey with signature scents

Sarracenia pitcher plants, found in bogs throughout eastern North America, look like trumpet-shaped flowers, often in purplish or reddish hues. But looks can be deceiving. The striking “flowers” are ...
Popular Science

These meat-eating plants are masters of deception

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. TIME AND AGAIN, plants have evolved the ability to eat animals ...