Sophie creates a beautiful carnivorous plant bog in a small pot, to bring the wonder of the wetlands to her doorstep.

The most common plants you’ll find in nurseries are sarracenias and Venus flytraps. They’re both moisture-loving bog dwellers that catch insects. The enjoy lots of light, humidity ...

Rainwater collects within this “pitcher”, into which attracted insects will fall. The pitcher plant can be found in bogs and fens all across Canada. They are native to North America and have adapted ...

Common butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris) grows throughout the UK on bogs, fens, wet heaths and moors ... Victoria on the island of Palawan in the Philippines, Attenborough's pitcher plant (Nepenthes ...

Other heath shrubs and sedges are mixed in with the leatherleaf. Graminoid cover is usually less than 30%. Typical bog plants including pitcher plant, sundew, and small cranberry are scattered on the ...

(Darwin called it “carnivorous syndrome.”) But while the appetites of most flesh-eating plants, such as Venus flytraps, lean mainly toward small insects, tropical pitcher plants have much more ...

According to a Gulf State Park-Alabama Facebook post, officials planned a prescribed fire for the Pitcher Plant Bog on ...

The pitcher plant Nepenthes x ventrata is gorgeous and popular with horticulturists, but it’s deadly for the insects that fall into the trap for which it is named. Yet the enzymes in the digestive ...

This knowledge is particularly limited with regard to communities of microbes because they are hard to see and count. Pitcher plants are an ideal system for studying how communities and ecosystems ...