Smaller carnivorous plants specialise in single-celled organisms (such as bacteria and protozoa) and aquatic examples also eat crustaceans, mosquito larvae and small fish. Carnivory is such an ...

What carnivorous plants can I keep together? Carnivorous plants with similar growing conditions can be grown in the same vessel. For example, Venus flytraps and Sarracenia pitcher plants often do ...

From carnivorous plants that digest prey to parasitic species ... the orchid ensures successful pollination—a clever example of evolutionary mimicry. Rafflesia: Smelling like death Deep in ...

and a species of carnivorous plant has now been caught stealing insects from its fellow flora. The plants, which are species of sundew that grow in Japan, are covered in sensitive, dew-tipped ...

But there’s much more to the carnivorous plant world. Exotic plant expert David Durie showed the Beechgrove team around his collection. “A carnivorous plant is essentially any plant which is ...

We saw other carnivorous species—lippy green pitcher plants and pinkish sundews no bigger than spitballs—but there was no sign of Dionaea muscipula. “This is why they call them rare plants ...