A delicate fungus gnat, flitting through Emilie Pulver’s Hyde Park living room, lands innocently on a glistening droplet clinging to a slender reddish hair on the tendril of a sundew. And str… ...

Scientists have discovered a carnivorous plant that grows prey-trapping contraptions underground, feeding off subterranean creatures such as worms, larvae and beetles.The newly found species of ...

A pioneering pitcher plant is changing what we know about carnivorous species.. With a name meaning 'shy', the pitcher plant Nepenthes pudica hides its traps under moss or soil to capture a range of ...

Other plants may use feather-like appendages or sticky substances to trap prey. In our mild Sonoma County climate, many types of carnivorous plants can be grown outdoors.

As in other flowering plants, jasmonates orchestrate the butterwort’s defense against its enemies. Jabbing leaves 10 or 15 times with a needle to mimic attack by an insect prompted a big buildup ...

Like other pitcher plants, Nepenthes pudica has modified leaves, known as pitfall traps or pitchers, that its prey fall into before being consumed. (One species is so large it can trap rats .) ...

One species is so large it can trap rats. Skip to content. NOWCAST WLKY News at 11pm Saturday. ... Carnivorous plant that traps prey underground is the 1st of its kind to be discovered ...

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No other species of pitcher plant known to science catches its prey underground.. The plant forms specialized underground shoots with small, white, chlorophyll-free leaves, the researchers said.

Scientists have discovered a carnivorous plant that grows prey-trapping contraptions underground, feeding off subterranean creatures such as worms, larvae and beetles.The newly found species of ...