Welcome to the strangest landlord-tenant agreement in nature. Pitcher plants may look like innocent greenery, but they run a tight (and deadly) operation. In this episode, we explore how these ...

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

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!

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 ...

It is also home to a number of other species of carnivorous plants, less famous and more widespread but no less bizarre. You can find pitcher plants with leaves like champagne flutes, into which ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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

Carnivorous plants are fascinating and seem to come from another world. They can eat insects, reptiles, and even small animals and are found in very different environments around the world ...