In the video above, watch up close as one Cape sundew plant uses its tentacles to trap and entomb an insect. Simultaneously fascinating and unsettling, the Cape sundew is just one of the many ...

In 1860, soon after he encountered his first carnivorous plant—the sundew ... an insect inside. The bladderwort has an equally sophisticated way of setting its underwater trap.

The sundew plant uses sticky tentacles to attract ... They remain unresponsive to raindrops or sand but react immediately to trapped insects. This remarkable ability to distinguish between ...

Botanists say the "fascinating and beautiful" great sundew is extinct in many areas, due to loss of wetlands. With tentacles that trap and digest insects, the plant is one of a dozen or so meat ...

Pitcher plants have cylindrical leaves with fluid at the bottom to trap insects that fall in. Sundew plants have sticky pads. Coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) are the tallest species of tree ...

Insect-eating plants are among the 17,000 ... and an invaluable carbon store to help climate change. Plants including the greater sundew and bog asphodel are now thriving there.

Pitcher plants have cylindrical leaves with fluid at the bottom to trap insects that fall in. Sundew plants have sticky pads. Coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) are the tallest species of tree ...