What is a Venus fly trap? The Venus fly trap is a carnivorous plant that is native to North and South Carolina. The plant gets its name from its ability to trap and eat flies and other small insects.

Try not to fall into the gaping maw of this aquatic plant known as a bladderwort. If a small organism touches the trigger hairs on the “trapdoor” shown in this image, a quick flow of water sucks the ...

Silas Mohlar, aquatic invasive species coordinator for the 30 Mile River Watershed Association, holds up invasive swollen bladderwort plants on Tilton Pond in Fayette. Since the plant was discovered ...

A plant that hunts. Bladderworts belong to the family Lentibulariaceae, a group of plants famous for their unusual traps.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Great, wonderful, wacky things can come in small genomic packages. That’s one lesson to be learned from the carnivorous bladderwort, a plant whose tiny genome turns out to be a jewel ...