Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The modified leaf traps crawling insects such as large ants and beetles, and less often, flying insects,” says Tony Avent, owner ...

Out of the hundreds of species of carnivorous plants found across the planet, none attract quite as much fascination as the Venus flytrap. The plants are native to just a small section of North ...

Most of us were probably a bit incredulous the first time we heard about the Venus flytrap: There’s such a thing as a carnivorous plant? One that actually can clench its jaw-like protuberance around ...

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 gardens in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Answer: If they ever perfect a people-shrinking ray and someone gets shrunk to the size of a housefly, that poor, tiny person might want to watch out for hungry Venus flytraps. Of course, they'll want ...

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 ...

The insect-eating Venus flytrap is found naturally in a 90-mile radius around Wilmington, N.C. A wildfire burned through the Green Swamp Preserve, a key habitat for the rare plant, but managers of the ...

Kay Harris couldn’t help but open the package. It didn’t matter that the intended recipient, her son, wasn’t there or even in the country when the mail came that day. Patience slipped away at the ...