Wild Life shared a very interesting fact about the carnivorous pitcher plant and how it is dangerous to some but gently opens its lid to provide sweet nectar to the tiny tree shrew. It also keeps ...

Carnivorous plants are some of the most fascinating species in nature. Plants like Venus flytraps, pitcher plants, sundews, and others get their nutrients by catching flying insects with sticky ...

Purple blossoms appear atop a long stalk to help keep pollinators from their carnivorous leaves. Found only near the summit of Mount Victoria on the island of Palawan in the Philippines, ...

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!

An ant species that lives on a carnivorous pitcher plant keeps nutrient thieves from escaping by eating them. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and water, personal ...

Breathing World of Borneo’s Carnivorous Pitcher Plants The Living, Breathing World of Borneo’s Carnivorous Pitcher Plants ...

“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 ...

Researchers are on the verge of a breakthrough in antibacterial products by identifying enzymes in the carnivorous pitcher plants that prevent bacterial and fungal infections. Japanese researchers ...

The Nepenthes rajah, the largest carnivorous pitcher plant in the world endemic to Mount Kinabalu, grows in the Cloud Forest conservatory. Its large vase-like traps can grow up to 41 cm high and ...

Sabah chief conservator of ­forests Datuk Frederick Kugan said pitcher plants or monkey cups are a genus of carnivorous plants with over 160 species worldwide. Twenty-five of the species are ...