Venus’ flytraps can be bought legally at a variety of stores. Fly Trap Farm, a well-known wholesaler in Brunswick County, sells flytraps to small garden centers, greenhouses and botanical ...

Of all the wild places across the globe, a 100-mile radius around Wilmington extending to Fayetteville is the only natural home to the Venus flytrap. This remarkable, carnivorous plant snaps its ...

An insect lands on the open leaves of a Venus flytrap plant, drawn to an appealing scent. It noses around and accidentally brushes one of the trap’s trigger hairs. An action potential shoots across ...

The Venus Flytrap plant is native to the United States and can be found growing wild in the marshes and bogs of the Carolinas. It was discovered in the 1700s. Botanists at that time, after the ...

As the most well-known carnivorous plant, the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a unique, delicate, and interesting houseplant with a specific care routine. Unlike other plants, carnivorous ...

Even if the Venus flytrap is added to the federal endangered list, that’s only one step toward its conservation. While the Endangered Species Act protects animals that stray onto private lands ...

From its unique trigger hairs to its rapid movement, the Venus flytrap has evolved in ways that are truly jaw-dropping. But what’s even more surprising is how this plant survives and thrives in ...

March 31, 2025 / 1:33 PM EDT / CBS/AFP An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, scientists reported Wednesday.

What was supposed to be a simple online plant order turned into a botanical mystery—and now internet users are on the case. A man ordered a "Venus flytrap" from an overseas seller, only to ...

An extinct species of parasitic wasp dating back nearly 99 million years was found preserved in amber, according to researchers. Specimens of Sirenobethylus charybdis, or S. charybdis, named after ...

The sensory hairs of the Venus flytrap contain a heat sensor that warns the plant of bush fires. It reacts to rapid temperature jumps, as researchers have discovered.