In this video, I hatched 1,000 flies and placed them in a container with 50 Venus flytrap plants. Will the large number of ...

A Venus flytrap closes around a finger in a safe experiment, showing how the plant’s trap works.

Pity the poor fly that lands on a Venus flytrap. When the insect touches hair-like structures on this remarkable carnivorous ...

New research seems to bust a common hypothesis for how a Venus flytrap's trap begins to close, while supporting another.

Serome Hamlin shares tips for potting and caring for Venus flytraps. Featured on VHG episode 2508, October 2025. KEYWORDS: VHG 2508, Virginia Home Grown, DIY, Serome Hamlin, Venus flytrap Virginia ...

The concept of a plant that "eats" animals provokes the darker regions of the imagination. In the 1980s musical comedy "Little Shop of Horrors," a giant Venus flytrap named Audrey II consumes human ...

A Venus flytrap is a meat-eating plant that catches its own food. Their leaves look a bit like tiny jaws. Inside each leaf are tiny hairs. If an insect, fly or even small frog brushes against the ...

Carnivorous plants have nutritional needs that may not otherwise be met in their environments, one reader explains ...

We asked gardening pros to share which plants you should never plant in a terracotta pot and here's what they said.

Our Grow a Garden 2 guide explains how to get Dragon's Breath, and why you'd want to plant the Dragon's Breath seed in your ...

A photo of a cucumber tendril cinched around an earwig has set off a surprisingly big discussion, with users debating whether ...

Experiments rule out osmotic water flow and identify rapid cell wall softening as the driving force in Dionaea muscipula ...