A n insect lands on the open leaves of a Venus flytrap plant, drawn to an appealing scent. It noses around and accidentally brushes one of the trap’s trigger hairs. An action potential shoots across ...

The subject of many jungle-based action movies, a hit musical (see Little Shop of Horrors) and even the 2023 John Lewis ...

Venus flytrap care (Dionaea muscipula) is comparable to pet ownership, although in this case, your little green pet has ...

Got bugs? Then you might want to get a Venus flytrap, a fascinating carnivorous (!) plant you can grow alongside all your other houseplants. This interesting little plant, native only to the bogs ...

In 2020, Japanese scientists genetically altered a Venus flytrap so that it glows green in response to outside stimulation, yielding important clues about how the plant's short-term "memory" works.

Venus flytraps recognize their prey using touch-sensitive trigger hairs located on the trap's inner surface. When stimulated, these hairs generate an electric signal that is transmitted to the plant.

Venus' flytrap plants grow outside Myrtle Beach. Gov. Henry McMaster recently signed a bill making the Venus' flytrap the official carnivorous plant of South Carolina.

The Venus Flytrap plant is native to the United States and can be found growing wild in the marshes and bogs of the Carolinas. It was discovered in the 1700s. Botanists at that time, ...

Ancient parasitic 'Venus flytrap' wasp found preserved in amber. The species likely used its unique apparatus to trap its hosts, ... reminiscent of a Venus flytrap plant, ...

Harris got his first carnivorous plant when he was 5 years old. It was a Venus flytrap and from there, he built a greenhouse when he was 12, and 20 years later the garden grew into one of the ...

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture and immobilize their prey.