WHEN you spend long summer days in the garden, keeping pesky flies and mosquitos at bay is a top priority. Fortunately, there ...

The Not So Secret Life of Plants” features 50 paintings from 33 artists in the Orlando Science Center’s Fusion: A STEAM ...

The Venus fly trap (Dionaea muscipula) captivates with its clever approach to survival, thriving in the coastal wetlands of North and South Carolina.This remarkable plant is not only known for its ...

Venus flytraps are carnivorous plants that consume insects in order to fulfill their own nutritional requirements. ... One of the most famous of all carnivorous plants is the Venus flytrap.

Unlike the Venus flytrap, the waterwheel’s traps are tiny—just a few millimeters across—but they close in less than half a second. Floating free in nutrient-poor waters across Europe, ...

Researchers near California waters found an elusive, deep sea "mystery" mollusk that operates as a Venus fly trap far below depth. The creature is also spectacularly bioluminescent with a vivid ...

The wild Venus flytrap, by contrast, is the ultimate native species, and though seldom studied, it is widely cherished. “It’s the one plant that everybody knows about,” he says.

This ancient ‘Venus fly-trap’ wasp used its butt to kill. S. carybdis is named after a mythical Greek sea monster that ate unsuspecting sailors. By Andrew Paul. Published Mar 26, 2025 9:00 PM EDT.

The small Venus fly trap, for example, thrives in a very small native range in the Carolinas. A noteworthy giant of carnivorous plants is the Nepenthes rajah, a large, rare plant that grows in Borneo.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WNCN) — We are getting a first look at a prototype for one of North Carolina’s new license plate designs. Damon Waitt looking at Venus flytraps at the NC Botanical Garden ...

An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, scientists reported Wednesday.. The parasitic wasp's abdomen boasts a set of ...

The Venus flytrap anemone lives deep in the ocean at a range of around 3,300 to 6,600 feet. This is the ocean’s midnight zone, and it’s so far below the surface that sunlight can’t reach.