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I AM not aware that the Drosera has been noticed to capture so large an insect as the dragon-fly, Pyrrhosoma minium. Passing a pond-side on a bright June morning, where this insect wasflying ...

carnivorous plants that prey on insects and small animals, such as the pitcher plant, which lures prey into a cylindrical trap, and the Venus flytrap, which captures prey with bivalve-like leaves, but ...

DURING the summer of 1877 I began an experiment, the results of which were given in a paper read before the Linnean Society, January 17, 1878. A number of Drosera Plants were freely supplied with meat ...

Scientists have uncovered how sundews, Charles Darwin’s favourite plant, become more carnivorous in certain habitats. Researchers from Loughborough and Gloucester universities found that they alter ...

A carnivorous plant that fascinated Charles Darwin is able to increase its number of "tentacles" when nutrients from the ground are scarce, researchers say. The round-leaved sundew can therefore catch ...

Fertilizing disused peat extraction sites with both woody biomass and oil shale ash can spark more vibrant plant growth, overcoming nutrient-poor conditions, some researchers have found. The results ...