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 of ...

Venus flytraps have fascinated biologists for centuries, however, the molecular underpinnings of their carnivorous lifestyle remain largely unknown. Researchers have now characterized gene expression, ...

Although my first plant was a coleus, I have to credit my Venus flytrap (Dioneae muscipula) for getting me hooked on gardening. While watching the prehistoric-looking plant eat flies and other wayward ...

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WECT) - There are pine trees, brush, pine straw, shrubs and bushes as far as the eye can see. What seems to be a vast landscape out in the middle of nowhere is actually a coveted ...

A team of researchers has solved the riddle of one of the plant kingdom's fastest and most ferocious movements: the blink-of-an-eye closing of the Venus flytrap. A team of researchers has solved ...

Richard Jones saw his first Venus Flytrap when an old man -- well, maybe just old to 7- or 8-year-old Jones -- was selling them in paper cups out of his tailgate in Holden Beach, N.C. Richard Jones ...

Many flowering plants are in happy, mutually beneficial relationships with animals that suck up sweet nectar from their blooms and, in exchange, carry their pollen to far-off plants, allowing them to ...

Most people think of plants as being at the bottom of the food chain, but the Venus Flytrap defies this oversimplified way of thinking by devouring meat. While the name suggests that Venus Flytraps ...

As far as plants go, Venus flytraps are pretty hardcore. After attracting its prey with a fruity scent and trapping it inside its leaves, the flytrap slowly digests the insect for 5 to 12 days, ...

SOUTHEASTERN N.C. -- While stealing wild Venus’ flytrap could land an offender up to two years in prison, poaching of the carnivorous plant has continued in Southeastern North Carolina and only a ...

Three people were arrested this week for poaching wild-grown Venus flytrap. Jan. 26, 2012 — -- Venus' flytraps may have a fearsome reputation as far as plants go, but in the Carolinas, the ...