Finding a sundew plant with a healthy supply of insect food may not seem suspicious. After all, carnivorous plants are famed for supplementing their diet with meat to compensate for nutrient-poor soil ...

I’d been bent at the hip like a cartoon detective, snooping around the trail’s edges, for over an hour. Covered in streaks of my own blood, courtesy of the recently satiated mosquitoes I swatted off ...

World Bog Day was celebrated around the world on July 23. I celebrated by hiking to an Alaskan bog, or muskeg, as they are colloquially known. This particular bog surrounded a small lake that was ...

DULUTH -- The annual search for rare plants across Wisconsin has turned up a meat-eating plant in Ashland County that hasn’t been seen in the state in 45 years. The English sundew (Drosera anglica), a ...

The roundleaf sundew looks like something out of an alien movie, a tiny plant with tentacle-like stems extending in a rose pattern and red hairs sticking out from the leaves. It’s not a typical ...

Botanists discovered the first known population of round-leaved sundew in Kentucky, experts say. Screengrab from the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves Facebook page A brightly colored carnivorous ...

A plant recently discovered by botanists is the first of its kind in Maryland. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced Tuesday the discovery of a dwarf sundew (Drosera brevifolia) near ...

Wolf spiders and carnivorous plants called sundews may compete with each other for food in the wild, a new study finds. The two organisms, which both view small insects as tasty treats, seemed to ...

In 1860, a year after publication of his seminal work on the origin of species, Charles Darwin wrote to a friend, “At the moment, I care more about Drosera than the origin of all the species in the ...

In early June, I went with a few friends to check out some muskegs at Eaglecrest. In addition to the common round-leaf sundew, we found some long-leaf sundews already making flower buds. Both of these ...