The twitchy tentacles of a sundew can catapult prey into the carnivorous plant's sticky traps in a fraction of a second, researchers say. These fast-moving snares are among the quickest seen yet in ...

World Bog Day was celebrated around the world on July 23. I celebrated by hiking to an Alaskan bog, or muskeg, as they are colloquially known. This particular bog surrounded a small lake that was ...

Insects have plenty to beware when it comes to carnivorous plants. Add an acid-loving fungus to that list of dangers. Sundew plants have tentacle-like leaves that curl around and entrap flies and ...

When I teach ecology labs at Merrimack College, one of my favorite places to take students is the Pine Hole Bog in Andover’s Charles W. Ward Reservation. While walking along the quarter-mile boardwalk ...

Anyway, just as I was about to give up the search, a familiar sight popped out easily from the ground, even with my new eyesight. A bright green and blue familiar bluet damselfly was trapped in a ...

A new, carnivorous plant has been discovered in Kentucky.The Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves posted on Facebook that their botanists found some Round-leaved Sundew, or Drosera rotundifolia, ...

MORGANTON, N.C.,None — Most little boys grow up with a fascination for the supernatural, but one Burke County native took his passion to another level when he decided to stop reading about it and ...

A newly described species of wild tobacco that scientists found growing next to a highway truck stop in Western Australia is covered in sticky glands that trap and kill small insects, including gnats, ...